Consider: (i) After his surgery, Raja hardly could walk. (ii) After his surgery, Raja could barely walk. (iii) After his surgery, Raja barely could walk. (iv) After his surgery, Raja could hardly walk. Which sentences are grammatically correct?
With a modal auxiliary, these limiting adverbs conventionally precede the main verb: “could barely walk” and “could hardly walk”. Thus (ii) and (iv), D, have the word order expected by the examination. Both mean that walking was possible only with great difficulty.
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