All (the) children
?What is the difference between "All children in the class" and "All the children in the class"?
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The fact that "children" is modified by "in the class" restricts the referent to only those children, so it makes more sense to use "the". Both forms are used, but the basic principle I gave you above has the effect that the form with "the" is used a lot more. Google finds about 8 million uses of "all the children in the class", and only about 2 million of "all children in the class".
- The fact that "children" is modified by "in the class" restricts the referent to only those children, so it makes more sense to use "the".
- Both forms are used, but the basic principle I gave you above has the effect that the form with "the" is used a lot more.
- Google finds about 8 million uses of "all the children in the class", and only about 2 million of "all children in the class".
- it has fewer sentences in its data base, but it finds one example of "all the children in the class" and no examples at all of "all children in the class".
- This result is consistent with the Google findings.
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The fact that "children" is modified by "in the class" restricts the referent to only those children, so it makes more sense to use "the".
Both forms are used, but the basic principle I gave you above has the effect that the form with "the" is used a lot more.
Google finds about 8 million uses of "all the children in the class", and only about 2 million of "all children in the clas
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