27. All Told - Adverbs

All Told : 모두 합해서, 통틀어

 

All Told 
-> adverbial phrase

-> can use either use it at the beginning of a statement or at the end 
-> can use two different ways
-> most common use for the meaning - in total, in all
-> 2000 pounds all told
-> 20 people there all told 
-> counting all of them
-> 742 km all told we traveled
-> all told the distance we traveled was 742

-> to introduce or to follow a summary or a general statement
-> all things considered summing everything up
-> take everything into account, in all 
-> all told it is a very nice chap if you look at all his different characteristics
-> if you think about the overall/general effect, it has good things and bad things but all told I think it's quite a good thing 
-> you consider everything and every account in all
-> formality 4.5
-> use in every informal, semi-formal conversation and writing
-> but don't use in very formal framwork 
-> as to origin, all is everything, and told has the meaning of "count", bank-teller for example.

 

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