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Help, Is it correct? We hardly did expect the forthcoming danger.
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30 Oct 2014
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maryse pey�
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We hardly expected the forthcoming danger.
�We did hardly expect the forthcoming danger� is an emphasis, in other words �We were actually not prepared to face such a danger�. The auxiliary is not used in the ordinary form. |
30 Oct 2014
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tancredo
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Hi,
I would write:
"Hardly did we expect the forthcoming danger".
When starting a sentence with an adverb like hardly, never, seldom...(usually to give emphasis) we turn the sentence into a question, without the question mark.
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30 Oct 2014
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yanogator
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@tancredo, Inverted word order for a declarative sentence is correct, but sounds literary. We might use it in speaking if telling a story, but only because it sounds literary.
Maryse is correct.
Bruce
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30 Oct 2014
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