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Whl626 Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

.. and everything, .. ?

" Chandler: Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,... how needy is that ? "


This sentence structure seems to be baffling many Asian learners including myself. " she seems very nice " is so clear cut in meaning but with " and everything ", we've got to brainstorm it and make some good guesses at times.

Any good explanations on this ?
  

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You're having difficulty because it isn't really very grammatical at all. " But at some point, "and everything" just got to be a sort of sentence space-filler, kind of like "you know," or "like," for that matter. It's just a colloquial way of speaking.

— Kitkattail

  • You're having difficulty because it isn't really very grammatical at all.
  • " But at some point, "and everything" just got to be a sort of sentence space-filler, kind of like "you know," or "like," for that matter.
  • It's just a colloquial way of speaking.
  • You don't have to worry about it, really.
  • Just read the sentence as if "and everything" weren't there, and you'll still get the meaning.
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You're having difficulty because it isn't really very grammatical at all. "And everything," like "and all," originally meant "and other such things." As in, "she's nice and also [other good qualities]." But at some point, "and everything" just got to be a sort of sentence space-filler, kind of like "you know," or "like," for that matter. It's just a colloquial way of speaking. You don't have to w
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like "mind you"
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We tend to compare sentences to figure out the meaning or make guesses by analogy. As a result, the ... and everything .... or anything .... as anything make us come up with not a sure thing
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