Already replied vs Already reply

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Already replied' is the past tense form and is used when referring to a response that has already been given. 'Already reply' is the present tense form and is used when talking about a response that is consistently given before a certain time or event.

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Already replied

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to a response that has already been given in the past.

This phrase is used to indicate that a reply has been given before the current time or event. It is in the past tense.

Examples:

I already replied to his email yesterday.
She already replied to the invitation for the party.
He already replied to the text message.
They already replied to the survey.
We already replied to the customer's complaint.

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It should be noted that the Commission has already replied to previous parliamentary questions in relation to this subject.
The Commission has already replied to this issue in 1997.
Firstly, I have already replied.
Well, my colleague Stavros Dimas has already replied to a supplementary question on this issue.
I believe that I have already replied to this question in my main answer.
To date, 17 percent of the contacted public institutions already replied and removed the non-free PDF reader advertisements from their websites.
On the other hand, of course, I agree with the lively criticism from Elmar Brok, but I have already replied to some of his questions.
I believe I have already replied to Mr Whitehead on the subject of Amendments Nos 32 and 36 by telling him that we can accept them.
Just a brief thank you because Mr Yiannitsis has already replied in such a thorough manner and we are in complete agreement.
I have already replied to Mr Nicholson on tobacco products, stating that local production is decreasing in spite of the fiscal advantages.
As far as state benefits are concerned, the Commission has already replied to the party in the course of the investigation that those benefits represented amounts exceeding 10 million RMB.
For instance, I am happy to answer the question put by Mrs Müller about her letter, to which I have already replied.
I think that, from what I have said, I have already replied to this question.
GCM: Excuse me a moment.You recall also clause/provision 198, so she has already replied, and in any case we are at this, at the answers that she has given us, because otherwise it becomes...
To which thing I have already replied no, thanks: the shock of the Reader closing highlights the risk of trusting a big soulless corporation for something so important, personal, even "intimate" like being up-to-date on one's own most interesting web sites.
Mr Medina Ortega has already replied to our Greek colleagues who called for the same policy to be applied to all islands, and has explained the difference that is created by distances of many thousands of kilometres from the continent of Europe.
The debate is closed, we will not re-open it and, moreover, Mr Michel has already replied to this question in his speech and in his reply to Mr Posselt.
Mr Izquierdo Rojo had already replied to Mr Varaut and therefore, Mrs Lulling, you could not use your speech on a point of order to discuss the issue.
This issue has already been the subject-matter of written questions to which Commission has already replied Reply to E-3377/10, to 3434/10, to E-4488/10, to and joint reply to E-3918 until 3941/10...
I have already replied to him, asking to see him in order to let him know that this arrangement does not meet the wishes of our Assembly at all.

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Already reply

This phrase is correct and can be used when referring to a response that is consistently given before a certain time or event in the present tense.

This phrase is used to indicate that a reply is consistently given before the current time or event. It is in the present tense.

Examples:

They already reply to emails promptly.
She already replies to messages within minutes.
He already replies to comments on social media.
The company already replies to customer inquiries quickly.
We already reply to all feedback received.

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Tasker has shown itself on the indian market for the first time, with great expectation and already excellent replies.
I can already hear your reply: humanitarian standards.
They have already received a reply from Mr Corbett.
I went, already making my reply,
That question has already received a reply
A right of reply already operates satisfactorily for the written press and audiovisual services in all Member States.
The Honourable Member could refer for example to the reply already given to written question E-0186/04 by Mr Turco OJ C.
I am pleased to tell you that I have already received positive replies from a number of Member States and several EU regions.
The Commission is currently preparing proposals to this end, as I already mentioned in reply to a previous question.
Detail reference is made the intense one and realizes action of recovery credits and to the performance of procedures to public evidence that have already found reply under the profile of legitimacy from the Regional Administrative Court Campania.
The Bureau has already decided that Parliament replies to correspondence from citizens in Basque, Catalan and Galician language in these respective languages.
A previous "reply" I said that Introvigne already sent a reply to certain friends of his.
As regards voting practices in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Council would refer the Honourable Member to the reply already given to Parliamentary Question P-3445/07.
The Commission has nothing further to add to the replies already given to the Honourable Member's Written Questions P-0848/06 and P-3771/06.
As I have already said in a reply at last July's parliamentary session, the presidency has already initiated a discussion on the external frontier customs strategy.
As already stated in the reply to the Written Question E-0752/05 submitted earlier by the honourable Members of Parliament, the Council has not examined the letter by UNODC Executive Director.
The Council is extremely sensitive to this issue, as it already indicated in the reply to Question P-2932/08 on the same subject.
Furthermore, unless I'm wrong, you already received a written reply at the beginning of the month on a question similar to the one that you have just asked.
I do not think it is a good idea therefore to describe in detail what I have already mentioned in my reply, in accordance with the usual and precise procedure.
As already mentioned in the reply to the Written Question E-3828/02 of the Honourable Member, the Commission is monitoring the practical operation of the system.

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frequently reply
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