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Hi, I'm Phil and I'm going to tell you about the difference between'hard' and 'hardly'.

'Hard' we can use in lots of different ways but it usually means 'strong', 'difficult' or 'intense':

Ow! That ball's 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's hardly any water in this cup.

We can use it with 'ever' for frequency.

For example:

I hardly ever play basketball.

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.

And I often get hurt because the ball's hard, and there's hardly any time to get out of the way!