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Silencio Tarsier Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

in the stands

Zoltan Halmay of Hungary and Scott Leary of the US were the leading contenders in the 50 yards freestyle. In fact, it was absolutely freestyle... Besides swimming, the two pulled each other back at one stage of the race. As we can read in the St. Louis Globe Democrat: "Scarcely had the men finished than Leary threw up his arms in the air and yelled to the officials on the float and in the stands 'Foul.' As soon as he could swim to the float, he did so and claimed that Halmay interfered with him near the finish and tried to pull him back. While it was acknowledged that Halmay's course was the strongest in the world, all thoughts of his attempting to deliberately foul Leary were cast to the winds and the foul was disallowed."

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Silencio Tarsier what is the underlined? Which words do you not understand? I see no idioms.

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Silencio Tarsierwhat is the underlined?
Which words do you not understand? I see no idioms. 'Stands' are the viewing seats for the officials.
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Scarcely had the men finished than Leary threw up his arms in the air

I think it is grammar problem for me here.
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Scarcely had the men finished than Leary threw up his arms in the air = As soon as the men had finished, Leary threw up his arms in the air
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scarcely.... than.....

so it is the common usage of scaracely, isn't it?
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Silencio Tarsierso it is a common usage of scarcely, isn't it?
Yes.
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