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