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I want to know the structure of "Hardly had I slept when the telephone rang" or can we use hardly I had slept when the telephone rang.

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This sentence is making use of Inversion. The same sentence without Inversion would be:

I had hardly slept when the telephone rang.

which means the same thing as

Hardly had I slept when the telephone rang.

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