Question
The poor man’s son is working very hardly.
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the bold segment in the given sentence.Solution
"Hardly" means "barely" or "scarcely," but the intended meaning is to describe effort, so "hard" is the correct adverb here. Therefore, the corrected sentence is: The poor man’s son is working very hard.
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