| 词组 | all ready, already |
| 释义 | all ready, already In the closing decades of the 20th century the distinction between all ready and already no longer needs explanation except perhaps for school children. It is primarily a spelling problem now, one only rarely muffed by grown-ups: • A few of these have been sold for breeding purposes all ready —Holstein-Friesian World, 1 Mar. 1952 All ready is two words. When they occur together as a fixed phrase rather than a coincidence (as in "We are all ready to leave"), they mean ready; all is merely an intensive. The phrase exists chiefly in speech, and is seldom to be found in edited prose except transcribed speech. It is therefore seldom a problem. Already is an adverb. It is used in sentences like this: • The train had already left when we got to the station —Corder 1981 |
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