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We use all (of) the (with an article), when we're talking about a specific group of the noun. Like quentin delapierre and his crew, we are all looking in the same direction. As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late.
The whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration):
Putting all of one's available resources into an effort: • there was a sound of. When 'all' is a pronoun, it can come with both singular and plural nouns. How to use all in a sentence.
• there are leaves all over the car. Games staking all of one's chips, as in poker. When we say all (of) the students, we're talking about a specific group of students. • she had flour and stuff all over her hands.
• the choir has sung in concerts all over the country.
There are 63 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word all, two of which are labelled obsolete. The whole number of (used in referring to individuals or particulars, taken collectively): Every one (of), or the complete amount or number (of), or the whole (of): 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.
• katie's toys were spread out all over the floor. You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general. The meaning of all is the whole amount, quantity, or extent of. The governor mounted a halfhearted campaign for the presidency but didn't.
