instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

I am frightened of tigers and fond of clowns without exception.

response: acceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

Hardly was there any rain falling.

response: acceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

I said that my father, he was tight as an owl.

response: acceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

Mary is happy with her work, and John is with his children.

response:
acceptable