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Diotima Posted 10 years ago
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all - all of
I have found this sentence and I would really appreciate you help:
"This type of material will not appeal to all the children all of the time".
I cannot understand the difference between all on its own and all of . I have actually never used the form "all of " so I do not understand what it means and how to use it.
Can you please help me, perhaps with some examples?
Thank you!
"This type of material will not appeal to all the children all of the time".
I cannot understand the difference between all on its own and all of . I have actually never used the form "all of " so I do not understand what it means and how to use it.
Can you please help me, perhaps with some examples?
Thank you!
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Linguistic authorities say that all of before a noun is commoner in AmE than in BrE, but it is preferable to use all alone in formal writing both in AmE and BrE. Also, mind the all of + pronoun (all of them, all of whom). There's no need to rephrase it with them all, who all .
- Linguistic authorities say that all of before a noun is commoner in AmE than in BrE, but it is preferable to use all alone in formal writing both in AmE and BrE.
- Also, mind the all of + pronoun (all of them, all of whom).
- There's no need to rephrase it with them all, who all .
- Both forms are fine.
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Linguistic authorities say that all of before a noun is commoner in AmE than in BrE, but it is preferable to use all alone in formal writing both in AmE and BrE. Also, mind the all of + pronoun (all of them, all of whom). There's no need to rephrase it with them all, who all. Both forms are fine.
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