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Hans51 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

All students

"All students should follow this rule". Hello, all of a sudden I was wondering if we can consider 'all' as an equal of 'students', "All=students" as "All = the students" in "All (of) the students" or it is just an adjective? I think "all" as a noun can function as an adjective, so we could consider it as a noun and an equal of following nouns. What do you think? Thank you as usual for helping me with tricky questions.
  

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Although many dictionaries mark all as an adjective, the word is a determiner , to be more accurate, although some regard determiners as types of adjectives. All can also be a pronoun , not a noun. As a pronoun, the word can be "equal", as you put it, to the noun for which it stands.

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  • Although many dictionaries mark all as an adjective, the word is a determiner , to be more accurate, although some regard determiners as types of adjectives.
  • All can also be a pronoun , not a noun.
  • As a pronoun, the word can be "equal", as you put it, to the noun for which it stands.
  • All students are required to wear proper attire.
  • (determiner) He reassured us that all was well.
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Although many dictionaries mark all as an adjective, the word is a determiner, to be more accurate, although some regard determiners as types of adjectives. All can also be a pronoun, not a noun. As a pronoun, the word can be "equal", as you put it, to the noun for which it stands.

All students are required to wear proper attire.
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Thank you. So you mean we can consider All=students in 'All students should follow this rule' to be correct? Sorry about revising this reply.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe this is it: In all of the students, all is a pronoun, so the answer is yes. Again, some would consider it a determiner phrase.
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Thank you. So you mean we can consider All=students in 'All students should follow this rule' to be correct? Sorry about revising this reply and not being smart about it.

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All students should follow this rule.

The sentence is correct.
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Thank you and sorryEmotion: smile, but I just would like to make it clear that 'All' as a pronoun can be equal to 'students' in the
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All should follow this rule.

Yes. It's fine as long as the listener(?) know whom you're talking about.
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