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Tom Reached Started Snow Heavily Word Sentence Order

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
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