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Вроде всё готово.

Вроде всё готово.
Everything seems to be ready.
From Lesson 255:Seeming and equivalence (казаться, являться)·Russian

Breakdown of Вроде всё готово.

готов
ready (short form)
вроде
kind of, sort of

Questions & Answers about Вроде всё готово.

The lesson is about казаться (to seem). Why does this sentence use вроде instead of кажется?
Вроде is a very common, conversational alternative to кажется. You could absolutely say Кажется, всё готово here. Both mean 'it seems' or 'looks like,' but вроде acts as a particle rather than a verb and is heavily used in everyday speech to express a slight uncertainty.
Since this lesson teaches that verbs of seeming take the Instrumental case, why aren't the words here in the Instrumental?
Because вроде is a particle (a small unchangeable word), not a verb like казаться. It doesn't change the grammar of the rest of the sentence. It just sits at the start to add the meaning of 'it seems,' leaving всё and готово in their standard Nominative forms.
Why does the adjective готово end in '-о'?
It is the short form of the adjective готовый (ready). Because it describes the pronoun всё (everything), which acts as a neuter singular subject, the short adjective must also take the neuter singular ending '-о'.
Where is the 'to be' part of 'seems to be'?
In the present tense, Russian usually drops the verb 'to be' (is/are). While English says 'seems to be ready', Russian simply says 'seems everything ready' (Вроде всё готово). If you moved this to the past tense, the 'to be' verb would appear: Вроде всё было готово (Everything seemed to be ready).

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