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Bamtori Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

It's all here / They're all here

"Car, radio, wallet. It's all here."

Teachers, what I'm wondering about here is that why the speaker said, "It's all here." and not "They're all here."

I mean, car, radio and wallet are the three items that are here.
  

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I think both can be used. If you look at the three objects as representing a group of say missing objects which you've just found, "It's all here" is bettter, IMO. If you still prefer to look at them individually and not collectively, "They're all here" might be better.

— Marius Hancu

  • I think both can be used.
  • If you look at the three objects as representing a group of say missing objects which you've just found, "It's all here" is bettter, IMO.
  • If you still prefer to look at them individually and not collectively, "They're all here" might be better.
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I think both can be used.



If you look at the three objects as representing a group of say missing objects which you've just found, "It's all here" is bettter, IMO.



If you still prefer to look at them individually and not collectively, "They're all here" might be better.
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Thank you so much, Marius. It's all clear nowEmotion: big smile
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Additionally...

You can take "It" here as an implicit "All you need" (i.e. "All you need is here...").

MrP
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Or as the implicit everything, which takes the singular.

I have it all. =
I have everything.

Syntax, semantics, pragmatics!
It is all so confusing. =
Everything is so confusing.

CJ
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