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All Ready or Already?
What Is the Difference between "All ready" and "Already"?
"All ready" and "already" are easy to confuse because they sound identical.- "All ready" means completely prepared. For example:
- The team members are all ready.
- "Already" means prior to a specified time. For example:
- We have finished the task already.
More about "Already" and "All Ready"
The terms "all ready" and "already" sound identical and are sometimes confused.
All Ready
"All ready" means "completely prepared." It is more emphatic than just "ready," but - grammatically - it can be replaced with "ready."Here are some examples of "all ready" in sentences:
- Lillian is all ready. Mark is prepared to brief.
- Make sure everyone is all ready by 9 o'clock.
Already
"Already" is an adverb meaning "prior to a specified or implied time" or "as early as now."Here are some examples of "already" in sentences:
- It is already illegal to culture human-animal embryos for more than fourteen days.
- When they pulled the shark up in the net it was already dead.
- The wild Hepatica Nobilis flowers are already blooming. This is one month earlier than last year.
More about "All Ready"
Of course, the word "all" (when used as an indefinite pronoun with a meaning similar to "everyone") can precede "ready."Example:
- Is John ready? Is Jane ready? Are you ready? Are you all ready?
- Yes, we are all all ready.
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