All these bookcases, too expensive

English as a Second Language Listening, speaking, pronunciation and accent
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At a furniture store

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Man: Well, I’m going to the less expensive store. Bye bye.
Mm. All these bookcases, too expensive, no.
Excuse me. I’m looking for some furniture. I’d like to buy
some inexpensive furniture and I was wondering if you could
help me out.

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What does really he say?

-All these bookcases, too expensive, no.

-All these bookcases are too expensive, no.

-All these bookcases ??? too expensive, no.

Thank you

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He’s wandering around, making separate comments about different bookcases, each comment a fragment of a sentence.
Hmm, All these bookcases … too expensive … no.

If he were using complete sentences, he might say:

Hmm, look at all these bookcases.
This one is too expensive.
No, not this one.

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:

Very nice explanation.

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