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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Fashionable dresses with a flair all their own.

Fashionable dresses with a flair all their own.

Could the above sentence be written as:


Fashionable dresses with a flair of all their own?
  

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Fashionable dresses with a flair all of their own.

  • Fashionable dresses with a flair all of their own.
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Fashionable dresses with a flair all of their own.
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Jackson, a flair all their own is correct.
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Grammar GeekJackson, a flair all their own is correct.

I didn't say that it's wrong. It's just that I don't find it natural. Is all their own a phrase? If there would be of in that sentence as I suggested above, then it would sound natural to me.
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I would take "all" as an adverb here, meaning "wholly", or "entirely". Thus "a flair [that is] wholly their own".

(I wonder myself whether garments can have "flair".)

MrP
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If we are going for grammatically correct, I'd go with "Fashionable dresses with a flair all their own" (assuming, of course, dresses can have flair).

If we are going for readability or verbal usage, "Fashionable dresses with a flair all of their own." seems acceptable
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MrPedantic
I would take "all" as an adverb here, meaning "wholly", or "entirely". Thus "a flair [that is] wholly their own".

(I wonder myself whether garments can have "flair".)

MrP

Fashionable dresses with a flair that is all their own.

The above sentence seems natural to me.
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This is from “The Handbook of Good English” – by Edward D. Johnson about all vs. all of:



“In a few constructions, such as all of them, of is necessary, but generally it is optional: all of the money, all the money. Usually omitting of improves a construction, making it tighter…. It is wise for a writer to have some reasonably consist

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