This flashcard explains that when a sentence begins with "hardly", the subject and predicate are inverted.
Ce flashcard explique que lorsque la phrase commence par "hardly", le sujet et le prédicat sont inversés.
| Task | Choose the sentence with the right word order |
|---|---|
| Answer | 3 |
| a | Hardly had Tom the house reached, it started to snow heavily. |
| b | Hardly Tom had reached the house, it started to snow heavily. |
| c | Hardly had Tom reached the house, it started to snow heavily. |
| d | Hardly had reached the house Tom, it started to snow heavily. |
| comment | If 'hardly' goes in the beginning of the sentence we should invert subject and predicate. Compare: Tom had reached (normal word order) - had Tom reached (inverted order) |
| topic | word order |
| level | 2 |
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