When 'all' refers to a group of people/things as a unified whole, it comes with a singular verb, but when 'all' refers to multiple groups. When we say all (of) the students, we're talking about a specific group of students. When shakespeare writes, in as you like it, “ all the world's a stage,” he means the whole world.
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When 'all' is a pronoun, it can come with both singular and plural nouns. The governor mounted a halfhearted campaign for the presidency but didn't. Putting all of one's available resources into an effort:
The whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration).
The meaning of all is the whole amount, quantity, or extent of. When you talk about all of one thing, you mean the whole thing. The new version is simple and easy to use You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general.
As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late. All is silent on the island now. We use all (of) the (with an article), when we're talking about a specific group of the noun. Games staking all of one's chips, as in poker.
See examples of all used in a sentence.
How to use all in a sentence. Every one (of), or the complete amount or number (of), or the whole (of):
