 Re: Sentence rewriten
oh... okay then:
'hardly had he arrived when things went wrong."
hardly had he arrived ....
... is past perfect, meaning it talks about a specific point in the past. We use the word 'when' to reference that specific time and connect it to things going wrong.
Q:When did things go wrong?
A:Hardly a moment after he arrived!
hope that helps.
here's a sentence with a parrallel form:
Big, sweet grapes are what I like.
EDIT/WONDERING: would I be correct in calling this a 'rhetorical' form? |