Astuces d'anglais: comment utiliser "ALL" en anglais

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Hi everyone.

Welcome back to English with Kathryn and today we're going to talk about the word all

And we're going to compare it with the words every, everybody and everything

We're also going to tell you why the following sentences are incorrect.

- All is very expensive

- All of children are in school

Okay, let's get into it.

So first,

All refers to three or more things.

If it's only two things, we say both

For example,

We don't say,

- I'll take all two oranges

We would say,

- I'll take all three oranges

If it's only two, we would say ,

- I'll take both oranges

or

- I'll take the two oranges

all before a noun

So we can use all before a noun.

For example,

- He's eaten all the pasta

- All my family are coming

- All children can be difficult at times

In the third sentence, notice how we don't have a determiner.

We just have all directly followed by that noun.

But the noun is plural we can only use all and a plural noun directly together

We can't say,

All of children because this noun is actually plural and we don't use the of in there.

So more examples would be,

- All trees are green

and

- All money is good

Okay.

So, we don't use an of in there

Okay,

And that's a very common mistake people make.

So the rule is that we can use all directly followed by a noun only if that noun is plural or uncountable.

For example,

-Furniture

or

-Information

All of + a personal pronoun.

We can use, All of + a personal pronoun.

What's a personal pronoun?

It's - us, you, them, him, her

For example,

- All of us are coming

- All of them went to the party

- She's invited all of you

And notice, in that sentence

- She's invited all of you

We can change it around,

We can say,

- She's invited you all

Because you is used as an object here.

For example,

- Sarah made dinner for them all

- Sarah made dinner for all of them

We can use it both ways.

All/ All (of) before proper nouns

We can use All or All of before proper nouns.

What are proper nouns?

They're - names of places or people

For example,

- All of Shakespeare's plays are tragic

- All Paris is romantic

or

- All (of) paris is romantic

And to put all in the negative, we say ‘not all’

So,

- Not all Parisians are very stylish

or

- Not all Europeans are for the covid vaccine

or

- Not all birds can fly

Just an important note

We do not say, - All the day

we say, - All day

We do not say, - All the week

we say, - All week

We do not say, - All the year

we say, - All year

For example,

- I have waited to go on holidays all year

All before or after a verb

We can use all before or after a verb

For example,

- All of us can swim

- All of us can swim

or

- We can all swim

- All the family work really hard

or

- The family all work really hard

- All the apples are bad

or

-The apples are all bad

Both of those sentences mean exactly the same thing.

When the context means All the people

We generally don't say, All the people

we say, Everybody or Everyone

For example,

- Everyone attended the meeting

We don't say,

- All attended the meeting

It's possible to say,

- All the people attended the meeting

But we generally don't use that structure in English.

We just say, Everyone or Everybody

All can be used to mean everything but we need all to be paired with a relative clause

For example,

- All I have is yours

or

- All that I have is yours

We don't say,

- All is yours

In this case we would say,

- Everything is yours

So I'll give you another example,

- She lost all she owned in the flood

or

- She lost everything

We wouldn't say,

- She lost all

No, we cannot finish a sentence with all.

We use all in a negative way as well,

meaning no more, not more than this.

For example,

- This is all the money I have

which means - I don't have more money than this

or

- All that happened was that he fell and cut his knee

means nothing more happened, it wasn't that serious

All and Every

Finally,

Let's take a look at all and every They pretty much mean the same thing.

They are both used to talk about all of a group of objects or people.

The only difference is the structure and how we use it in a sentence.

Every is used with a singular noun

and

All is used with plural and uncountable nouns

For example,

- Every human (singular) needs love

- All humans (plural) need love

So you can see the difference,

- Singular noun for every

- Plural noun for all

- Every door was closed

- All the doors were closed

And every cannot be used with uncountable nouns.

We do not say, - Every money I have

we say, - All the money I have

We do not say, - Every information is good

we say, - All information is good

And finally, notice the difference between all and every for time periods.

For example if we say,

- She was with me all week

or

- She was with me every week

Every week is week one, week two, week three, week four, week five.

For example,

All week is from Monday back to Sunday

So it's the whole week.

For example,

- I worked all day

Meaning- I worked from 8am to 8pm (all day)

- I worked every day

Meaning- I worked Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

So, I hope you really liked that lesson on all, every, everybody and everything.

And I hope it helped with your use of all in everyday spoken English.

As usual in the comments below,

Write a sentence using all and I will check it and make sure it's correct.

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