| There's two similar structures, also rather literary, that have got the same meaning, with "hardly" and "scarcely". You could say "Hardly had I arrived at the station when the train came in." or "Scarcely had I arrived at the station when the train came in". Same meaning, I got there just before the train. It's a slightly different structure to the one with "no sooner", because with no sooner we use "than", after a comparative, sooner, with "hardly" and "scarcely" we say "when", "Hardly had I arrived when the train came in". Trains are actually a bit unreliable in Britain today as I've suggested. I was on one recently on the way to London, we were moving extremely slowly, and the driver made an announcement over the loudspeaker saying "we apologise for the slow running of the train, but we have been moved onto a branch line because of engineering works, and we are likely to stay there for the foreseeable future." I was pretty upset, because it was my birthday and I really didn't want to spend it on a train between Oxford and London. However, no sooner had he made the announcement than we started going faster again, so I had my birthday at home after all. So thanks for your question, Michael. |
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