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Hard or Hardly

The adjective and adverb forms of  hard are the same . Pay attention please:

1) This man is a hard worker.

2) He works so hard in this factory.

In the first sentence  hard explains  a noun, man, so it is an adjective. But in the second sentence  hard explains  a verb ( work) , so it is an adverb of manner. 

Hardly is different from hard, hardly is a frequency adverb ( like: always, usually, sometimes....) and it comes before the main verb and after modals or be ( am, is, are, was, ....).

Hardly means: almost never. 

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1. He is so lazy, he hard hardly I don't know helps me with the housework.

2. This chair is too hard hardly I don't know for my grandfather to sit on.

3. Does a good worker work hard hardly I don't know ?

4. This lesson is not hard hardly I don't know, it's so easy.

5. Does your aunt usually come to your house? - No, she hard hardly I don't know comes to see us.

6. Do the students work very hard hardly I don't know in the classroom?

7. I hard hardly I don't know leave home before 7:00 in the morning.

8. Although my father is old, he works so hard hardly I don't know !

9. Can that old man walk so fast all the time? No, he can hard hardly I don't know walk.

10. How did they work? They worked very hard hardly I don't know.