Showing posts with label ALL or Whole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALL or Whole. Show all posts

ALL / WHOLE


ALL
We do not normally use all to mean everyone/everybody:
  • Everybody enjoyed the movie. (not 'All enjoyed..')
  • Tom knows everyone in his street. (not'... all in his street)
Sometimes you can use all to mean everything, but it is usually better to say everything:
  • They think they know everything. (not 'knows all')

WHOLE
We use whole mainly with singular nouns:
  • She was very quiet. She didn't say a word the whole meaning.
  • He has spent his whole life in London.
we say the/his/my etc. before whole. Compare:
  • the whole magazine / all the magazine
his whole life / all his life