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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"All of everything"

Have you ever seen and used this expression "all of everything"? I think using all and everything at the same time is too much but they are seen often. What do you native English speakers think? Thank you as always and take good care.
  

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They ate all of everything at the party -- This structure is common. If you have a more problematical instance, please post it.

— Mister Micawber

  • They ate all of everything at the party -- This structure is common.
  • If you have a more problematical instance, please post it.
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They ate all of everything at the party -- This structure is common. If you have a more problematical instance, please post it.
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Thank you and I have known that "All of it is my fault" and it changes to "It is all my fault" so "It" is an equal to "all" and also "all" is an adverb meaning "completely". That's why I think we can consider everything not only to be an equal to "all" in "Everything is all over", but also an adverb meaning "completely". So I would like to know if you are the one who agrees that "all" is an adverb
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I am afraid that I have already answered this same question twice above, so perhaps you should wait for a different person's response.
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The part of speech assigned to a word is determined by its context and specific use in a sentence.

The word "all" can be a determiner, pronoun, noun, or adverb.

eg.
All is well. (pronoun)
All of us are going. (pronoun)
The lodge is open all year. (determiner)
They grow all kinds of vegetables. (determiner)
He gave it his all. (noun)
He was all alone. (adv
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