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A Query please!
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ananthajyothi
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A Query please!
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In ISC Board paper in English (India) there is usually one of the following structures:
Hardly had the match begun when it started to rain.
No sooner had the match begun than it began to rain.
Hardly is usually followed by when and No sooner is followed by than. Is this a hard and fast rule? Is there anything grammatically wrong with the following structures:
Hardly had the match begun than it began to rain.
or
No sooner had the match begun when it began to rain.
Thank you.
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16 Dec 2012
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almaz
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This was discussed here scarcely four days ago:
Hardly....than is considered to be a syntactic blend, which normally suggests a minor error which is accidental or unconscious, but, according to Fowler (Dictionary of Modern English Usage), writing in 1926, this particular sequence was "surprisingly common".
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17 Dec 2012
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