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Daniel Maxwell Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

all while or all the while

a world-class education
as a super-cultured international student - the freedom to learn,
work, travel, play, live, explore, help, create, experience and grow
across South-East Asia – all the while pursuing your degree.
or
a world-class education
as a super-cultured international student - the freedom to learn,
work, travel, play, live, explore, help, create, experience and grow
across South-East Asia – all while pursuing your degree.

is all the while pursuing or all while pursuing please?

if you might please explain your answer so i can shut up one of the people at the office.
  

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'All the while'

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Daniel Maxwellis all the while pursuing or all while pursuing please?
Actually both are OK.

The most common is "while" as a conjunction or preposition.
"all while pursuing..."

"all the while" is more literary. Some dictionaries call it an idiom; others put it as a main entry.

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Daniel Maxwell[all the while] pursuing your degree
~ and you can pursue your degree during all the time you are doing those things
Daniel Maxwell[all (that)] - while pursuing your degree
~ and you can do all of those things while you are pursuing your degree

The word "all" associates with

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