Scarce basically means there is not very much of something...
For example: Butter is very scarce. The information provided is scarce.
Facing a deadline, I panicked; there was scarcely any time left to write this sentence.
I scarcely use the word scarcely in a sentence.
A sentence with the word "scarcely:" We heard scarcely a peep from them last night.
The area of interest is scarcely populated.
As a synonym for 'hardly' or 'barely.'
"I had scarcely rung the bell when the door was opened"
Sure. But without a context, it would scarcely be a sentence at all.
She had scarcely imagined he would leave so quickly. It had scarcely been two minutes before the man arrived home. I'd scarcely believed it would happen so soon.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply.
The adverb in the sentence above "There was scarcely any candy left for Malcolm." is scarcely because it is describing the verb any... I believe that is what the answer is :)
Indeed can be used as a adverb, or as an interjection.Here is an example of indeed used as an adverb, Indeed, it did rain as hard as predicted.And as an interjection, Indeed! I can scarcely believe it.
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Negative sentence: A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.