{"id":72310,"date":"2019-09-20T05:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72310"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:16:24","slug":"hardly-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hardly-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly &#8230; When"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The expression <b>&#8212; hardly &#8212; when\/before &#8212; <\/b>is used (often with a past perfect tense) to suggest that one thing happened very soon after another.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had <b>hardly <\/b>closed my eyes <b>when <\/b>the phone rang.<\/li>\n<li>I had <b>hardly <\/b>closed the door <b>before <\/b>somebody knocked.<\/li>\n<li>I had <b>hardly reached <\/b>the station<b> when <\/b>the train steamed out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a formal or literary style, the structure is sometimes used with an inverted word order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hardly had I <\/b>closed my eyes <b>when <\/b>the phone rang.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardly had I closed <\/b>the door <b>before <\/b>somebody knocked.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardly had I sat <\/b>for dinner <b>when <\/b>the telephone rang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression &#8212; hardly &#8212; when\/before &#8212; is used (often with a past perfect tense) to suggest that one thing happened very soon after another. I had hardly closed my eyes when the phone&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1520,1518,1519],"class_list":["post-72310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-before-after-hardly","tag-hardly","tag-hardly-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72311,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72310\/revisions\/72311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}