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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

All dark

It was 2 AM and all dark.

Is all dark grammatical and interchangeable with completely dark in this context?

  

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No. The sentence is not colloquial. I'd say 'pitch black'.

— Rover_KE

  • No.
  • The sentence is not colloquial.
  • I'd say 'pitch black'.
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No. The sentence is not colloquial. I'd say 'pitch black'.

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These days 'all dark' is much more closely associated with biologists' descriptions of the color features of various species:

... Tibiae without distinct basal pale bands; wing scales all dark ...
from The Culicidae of the Australasian Region

CJ

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