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Asif Mohammad

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· 1 Months ago

A is right. (Question: 392541.9 )

"Old habits die hard"- its a saying.

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In the given questions a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b), (c) and (d) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Old habits hardly die.  

Options:
A)

die hard    

B)

die too hard

C)

die much hardly    

D)

No improvement

Solution:

Ans: (d) No improvement. Old habits hardly die means that they don't often die. That is, old habits tend to survive while Old habits die hard is an proverb which is used for saying that it is difficult to change a way of behaving that someone has had for many years.

Arnav Chakraborty

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· 1 Months ago

@Knowledge Expert Yes both are grammatically correct but "Old habits die hard" is a proverb and is used conventionally. Thus we have an additional reason to choose it over the other.

Knowledge Expert

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· 1 Months ago

What is the difference in the meaning of these two sentences

Old habits die hard.

Old habits hardly die.

Are they both grammatically correct?

According to me, the first statement says that it is difficult to get rid of old habits whereas second says that the probability of losing your old habit is very less.
Both the statement are conveying one and the same message, It's just the way of conveying is slightly different, like one is directly indicating that old habits are very difficult to get rid of,
But the other one is indirectly hinting that probability of not getting rid of them is very less.
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