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Tkacka15 Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

All I need is...

All I need is to be allowed to be myself.


Is the sentence above natural?

Is "All" a pronoun in it?

  

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Yes. It's natural. In your example, it means "the only thing," so it's a pronoun (replaces a noun).

— Nel0506

  • Yes.
  • It's natural.
  • In your example, it means "the only thing," so it's a pronoun (replaces a noun).
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Yes. It's natural.

In your example, it means "the only thing," so it's a pronoun (replaces a noun).

tkacka15All I need is to be allowed to be myself

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/allink

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[ All (that) I need ] is to be allowed to be myself.


Some trad grammars call "all" a pronoun in examples like yours, but (with just one exception) modern grammar says that it belongs to the category 'determinative'.

Its function is that of 'fused-head NP' meaning "all x", where it is followed by the underlined relative clause to form the larger brac

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