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Hi, I’m going to tell you about the difference between hard and hardly.
Hard, we can use it in lots of different ways, but it usually means strong, difficult or intense.
“Ow – that ball is hard.”
“Calculus is hard.”
“That was really hard work.”
Hardly is an adverb and it can mean ‘almost not’.
“This is too small. I can hardly read it.”
We can use it with 『any’ to talk about quantity.
For example: “There is hardly any water in this cup.”
We can use it with ‘ever’ for frequency.
For example: “I hardly ever play basketball.”
The following three example sentences are used to help you remember.
It’s hard for me to play tennis, because I hardly ever train.
I can hardly walk afterwards, because I’ve been running hard.
I often get hurt because the ball’s hard and there’s hardly any time to get out of the way!