Master confusing words with ease
All ready vs. Already
All ready
/ɔːl ˈrɛdi/Examples:
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Already
/ɔːlˈredi/Examples:
"Her eyes I seem to see already!"That had already been present on the cricket and football fields.He already owed the city treasury five hundred thousand dollars.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- All ready is a phrase composed of two separate words, indicating that everything or everyone is completely prepared.
- Already is a single word often used to express that something has happened before a certain time or sooner than expected.
- Remember: all ready has a focus on preparation; think of all as including everything or everyone needed.
- In contrast, already gives a sense of time or precedence—something occurred before now.
- To check which to use, replace with completely prepared for all ready or before now/then for already in your sentence to see which fits.
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