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Hhtt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

all the noise

"His headache was aggravated by all the noise."

For this sentence, "all the noise" is confusing. What does "all the noise" mean? What is "all" there. What does all act to be?

Source:MacMillan English Dictionary.

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hhtt What does "all the noise" mean? = the great amount of noise. hhtt What does all act to be?

— Mister Micawber

  • hhtt What does "all the noise" mean?
  • = the great amount of noise.
  • hhtt What does all act to be?
  • I just think of if as part of the fixed phrase, 'all (of) the' = large quantity,
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hhtt What does "all the noise" mean?
= the great amount of noise.
hhtt What does all act to be?
I just think of if as part of the fixed phrase, 'all (of) the' = large quantity,
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Does all act as an adverb or adjective? I think it is an adjective modyfying the noise.

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all the noise = all of the noise with 'of' elided. Does that help?
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Mister Micawberall the noise = all of the noise with 'of' elided. Does that help?
I understand it, no problem with meaning but the problem is with part of speech of all. Is all adverb or adjective for this case. Is all modifying "the noise" ?

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You should be able to do this kind of thing yourself. Try here: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/all
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