Question

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instructions given in brackets:
As soon as the sports meet ended, the children ran on the field.
(Begin: Hardly ____________________.)
Note: Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of the sentence.

Answer 1

Hint: while changing the above-given sentence one has to keep in mind some rules like – where and why hardly is used in a sentence. Hardly is usually used before the main verb and/or after the first auxiliary verb, it can be used in the beginning before an auxiliary verb to indicate something happened very soon after another thing, etc.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 Before starting we must keep in mind that we have to change the sentence without changing its meaning.
Now, the word hardly can be used at the beginning of a sentence before an auxiliary (as told earlier), indicating that one thing happens very soon after another thing. For example – ‘Hardly had the rain stopped, when the sun came out’.
Now, keeping in mind the above-given explanation we can change the sentence and begin with ‘hardly: here, we will use hardly before an auxiliary- had this will change the sentence into –
‘Hardly had the sports meet ended, when the children started running on the field’.

Note: Hardly is not an adverb for hard, the adverb of hard is hard only, therefore don’t make the mistake of writing– ‘I work hardly’ instead of ‘I work hard’.