For The Most Part - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles #shorts
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So "for the most part" means "generally" or
"usually" or "for most of the time".
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An example I can give is if you went to a
party and if someone said, "Did you enjoy
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the party?"
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You could say, "I enjoyed the party for the
most part."
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Which would mean that you had fun, it was
a good party, and almost the entire time you
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were enjoying yourself.
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There might have been one or two things that
you didn't.
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We could also use it mean, "usually".
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So you could say, "For the most part Joe is
on time for work."
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So that means Joe is on time almost every
day.
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Maybe one day out of the month he's late,
but for the most part Joe is on time for work.
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