Direction: In the following questions some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If there is No error, your answer is (4) i.e. No error.
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- The old man felled
- some of the trees in the garden
- with hardly no effort at all.
- No error.
Correct Option: C
hardly any effort will replace hardly no effort because –
hardly (Adv.) : almost no; almost not; almost none Hardly, scarcely, etc. are negative words and should not be used with not or other negatives.
Look at the examples given below :
I can’t hardly believe it. (×)
I can hardly believe it. ( )
I did not hardly know him. (×)
I hardly knew him. ( )
Hence, with hardly any effort at all is the right usage
