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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

All that

"Every star will die, nearly all matter will decay, and eventually all that will be left is a sparse soup of particles and radiation." (BBC Earth website.)

Is "all that will be left" a noun phrase in which "all" is a noun (not a pronoun) and "that will be left" a defining relative clause?
  

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Anonymous Is "all that will be left" a noun phrase in which "all" is a noun (not a pronoun) and "that will be left" a defining relative clause? I would not call "all" a noun. I'd say it's a quantifier raised to the status of a noun, which makes it a pronoun, an indefinite pronoun according to some grammar books.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is "all that will be left" a noun phrase in which "all" is a noun (not a pronoun) and "that will be left" a defining relative clause?
  • I would not call "all" a noun.
  • I'd say it's a quantifier raised to the status of a noun, which makes it a pronoun, an indefinite pronoun according to some grammar books.
  • Otherwise, your analysis is fine.
  • CJ
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AnonymousIs "all that will be left" a noun phrase in which "all" is a noun (not a pronoun) and "that will be left" a defining relative clause?
I would not call "all" a noun. I'd say it's a quantifier raised to the status of a noun, which makes it a pronoun, an indefinite pronoun according to some grammar books.

Otherwise, your analysis is fine
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CalifJimI would not call "all" a noun.
Thank you for the reply.
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