What does “That’s pretty much all I read” mean?
What is the phrase below?
How did you understand the phrase “pretty much”
which means almost completely” for a student?
Does it mean
all I read is aproximately the book?
An exclamation point:
Perez enters the room and speaks to a woman in a low voice. I just remembered something. I’ve just remembered it! Am I an expert in an area? She nods. I must be more content. In the interview with your editor, you wanted to know if I or Wilcox had ever heard of the author Candice White. I had no idea her name was Candice White (in the books at the time or what books or other media). I’m not sure the name you used sounds familiar. Can you suggest an explanation? I thought maybe it was someone my wife read? She loves books and listens to music. “Sorensen nods her head again impatiently indifferently. “Yes? “But I actually have read one of her books. She wrote a true crime book a few years ago that I quite enjoyed. In a word, I like reading.. but that’s about all I read now. I don’t really know.. but I thought about all those books, and that’s pretty much all I read.. Ahhh,… Is this true? “Sorensen says, “The character was overrated. What’s the definition of “what was it called?” “I can’t remember exactly the name of the teacher who murdered one of his students. It was about the school principal. ” ”
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She wrote a truly interesting book about a mysterious rap artist in Thailand. I would highly recommend reading it. What is the best thing to read in my lifetime?
- If true crime is
- almost all the entirety, it means: True crime
- is almost completely the
- entirety what I read. Note
that the “that”
in your quote almost certainly refers to “true crime” in general
and not to
that specific book.
Why is the ‘I read’ present and not the continuous ‘I’m reading’? Why would anyone who has read a book regularly repeatedly bother to read it?
What are your thoughts on “almost completely”. Do you miss your point?
Looking at an imaginary conversation, consider this.
Detective: So, you come in the service entry door, turned on the kitchen lights, and saw the chef lay face down on the floor with a knife in his back.
Suspect: Pretty much.
There, “etty much” means “That’s the gist of it” or “There is nothing important to be added” to that account. What would just as easily be added to the list of things in your opinion?
The Murder Mystery is all I read. What do I mean by that word? As a travel writer, it’s easy to browse around the world and buy books that will satisfy everyone’s curiosity, but in the overall scheme of things, murder mysteries are the speaker’s regular fare and those other genres occur so rarely that they’re
not worth mentioning.
