What the sentence means?
All my friends do not know the English language.
Does the sentence mean that most of his friends can speak and write it very well?
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anonymous All my friends do not know the English language. Does the sentence mean that most of his friends can speak and write it very well? No, it means that none of his friends know English, but it is a rather back-to-front way of putting it.
- anonymous All my friends do not know the English language.
- Does the sentence mean that most of his friends can speak and write it very well?
- No, it means that none of his friends know English, but it is a rather back-to-front way of putting it.
- If he says "Not all my friends know English", that means that some of them do, probably most of them.
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anonymousAll my friends do not know the English language.
Does the sentence mean that most of his friends can speak and write it very well?
No, it means that none of his friends know English, but it is a rather back-to-front way of putting it. If he says "Not all my friends know English", that means that some of them do, probably most of them.
0anonymousAll my friends do not know the English language.
This is the kind of faulty sentence you get whenever you use a universal quantifier in the subject position (all, both, ...) with a verb under negation, thus:
All ... do not ...
To correct it you must choose between these:
Only some ... do / Not all ... do ...
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