Task | Choose the sentence with the right word order |
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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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