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Anonymous Posted 3 years ago
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This could all go wrong for us

This could all go wrong for us.

That's the expression used by Eugene Robinson during an interview on YouTube.

Is "all" the subject and "This" a determiner in This could all go wrong for us?

I understand This could all go wrong for us as This all could go wrong for us, where "This" functions as a determiner and "all", a pronoun, as a subject.

  

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The expression is an idiom, quite common. "All" is more characteristic of an adverb, adding emphasis of degree. It is not necessary in the sentence.

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  • The expression is an idiom, quite common.
  • "All" is more characteristic of an adverb, adding emphasis of degree.
  • It is not necessary in the sentence.
  • We could be headed for a disaster.
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The expression is an idiom, quite common. "All" is more characteristic of an adverb, adding emphasis of degree. It is not necessary in the sentence.

We could be headed for a disaster.

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anonymousI understand This could all go wrong for us as This all could go wrong for us, where "This" functions as a determiner and "all", a pronoun, as a subject.

I'd say they are both determiners, and they are the subject.

An alternative is to say that it's equivalent to "all (of) this", but again you have two determiners which form the subject. In

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