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[Sina]

oh, i ve still got a quasetion

...after all, what does it mean anyway?

and another sentence:
to peter's parents from whom the father seems reasonably well-known

thanks

[kurisuti]

Could you use "after all" in a sentence?

[Sina]

Hey, yeah, yoz can use it for certain-. I think its usage is similar to "at all" or whatever. You defintely can use it when forming a sentence.

[kurisuti]

No, I mean "after all" means different things in different sentences. What version of "after all" do you want to know?

[advoca]

After all can be used in two ways:

1. used for saying that something is true despite what was said or planned before:
Maybe she was right after all.
I'm sorry, but we've decided not to come after all.

2 used when giving a reason to explain what you have just said:
She shouldn't be working so hard - she is 70, after all.
I'm not really ambitious. After all, money isn't everything.

After all, these two words can be a useful bit of vernacular.