Make Your Editor Cry: Afterall vs. After all
In this article, I will attempt to clarify the sometimes confusing difference between the single word afterall and the two word phrase after all.
After all is always two words.
The spelling of this two-word phrase as one word like afterall is not a thing–or a word.
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Examples:
Incorrect:
There's an undertone of condescension, winking to let you know that, afterall, everyone in this film is just phoning it in.
Correct:
There's an undertone of condescension, winking to let you know that, after all, everyone in this film is just phoning it in
Gregg Bridgeman is the Editor-in-Chief at Olivia Kimbrell Press. He is husband to best-selling Christian author Hallee Bridgeman and parent to three. He continues to proudly serve in the US Armed Forces and has done so in either an active or reserve capacity for more than twenty years as an airborne and air assault qualified paratrooper, earning a Bronze Star for his service. Most importantly, he was ordained in October of 2001 after surrendering his life to Christ decades earlier.