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それも details

Examples

and at that; and not just any — adds the detail that makes the point land

昨日きのう三時間さんじかんたされたんだ。それも、そとったまま。

kinou, sanjikan mo matasareta n da. soremo, soto de tatta mama.

I was kept waiting three whole hours yesterday. Standing outside, at that. casual

彼女かのじょ一人ひとりやまのぼったそうです。それも、ふゆ富士山ふじさんに。

kanojo wa hitori de yama ni nobotta sou desu. soremo, fuyu no fujisan ni.

Apparently she climbed a mountain alone. Mount Fuji in winter, no less. neutral

予約よやく三件さんけんかさなってしまいました。それも、すべておな午後ごごです。

yoyaku ga sanken mo kasanatte shimaimashita. soremo, subete onaji hi no gogo desu.

Three bookings ended up overlapping. All of them on the same afternoon, no less. neutral

Formation

Notes

What follows それも is often a bare phrase rather than a finished sentence
(…それも、そとったまま。), because it is a detail of the thing
already stated and not a new claim.

Related patterns

Similar

  • それに brings in a SEPARATE point about the topic (やすい。それに、ちかい); それも goes back into the point just made and specifies it — the thing after それも is the same event or object, now pinned down (三時間さんじかんった。それも、そとで) — so two unrelated facts cannot take それも.

  • しかも may bring in a wholly separate fact (おくれた。しかも、あやまりもしなかった) as readily as it sharpens the one just stated; それも can only do the second, so it cannot stand where しかも's addition is not a specification of what came before — あやまらなかった is no detail of おくれた.

Lookalikes

  • Where それ is an ARGUMENT of what follows, それも is just それ+も — "that one too" (それも面白おもしろそうだね) — and the sentence predicates something about それ; the connective それも predicates nothing, and what comes after it is a detail of the previous sentence, not a comment on それ.

  • One と apart and constantly mistyped for each other, but それとも needs what follows it to be interrogative and asks the listener to pick, while それも asks nothing and merely adds a detail to a statement already made.