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Soheil1 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Already(chess)

Hi.

He is showing a queen-odds game starting position and says:
I can already hear you asking "......"
What does "already" mean?


Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

It's a rhetorical device in which the author pretends that his readers will immediately have questions about what he has written.

— Deadrat

  • It's a rhetorical device in which the author pretends that his readers will immediately have questions about what he has written.
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It's a rhetorical device in which the author pretends that his readers will immediately have questions about what he has written.
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soheil1What does "already" mean?
It means just what the dictionary says it means.

prior to a specified or implied past, present, or future time : by this time (Merriam-Webster)

In your sentence:

I can already hear you asking ... ~ At this time I can hear you asking ... ~ Now I can hear you a
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