| 单词 | all |
| 例句 | all adjective 1.•all the children went home|•all creatures need sleep:each of, each one of, every one of, every single one of | every (single), each and every. ANT no, none of. 2.•the sun shone all week:the whole of the, every bit of the, the complete, the entire. ANT none of. 3.•in all honesty|•with all speed:complete, entire, total, full | greatest (possible), maximum. ANT no, little.▶pronoun 1.•all are welcome:everyone, everybody, each person, every person. ANT none, nobody. 2.•all of the cups were broken:each one, the sum, the total, the whole lot. ANT none. 3.•they took all of it:everything, every part, the whole amount, the (whole) lot, the entirety. ANT none, nothing.▶adverb •he was dressed all in black:completely, fully, entirely, totally, wholly, absolutely, utterly | in every respect, in all respects, without reservation, without exception. ANT partly.WORD LINKS forming words meaning ‘relating to all, including all,’ such as omniscient (‘knowing everything’) and pan-African (‘including the whole of the African continent’)Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE all of Other than as an ironic idiom for "no more than" (e.g., •Sex with Edgar lasts all of twenty seconds), does all of have any legit uses? The answer is a qualified, complicated, and personally embarrassed yes. Here's the story. An irksome habit of many student writers is to just automatically stick an of between all and any noun that follows— •All of the firemen posed for the calendar;•She gave the disease to all of her friends —and I have spent nearly a decade telling undergrads to abjure this habit, for two reasons. The first is that an excess of of's is one of the surest signs of flabby or maladroit writing, and the second is that the usage is often wrong. Over and over, in conference and class, I have promulgated the following rule: Except for the ironic-idiom case, the only time it's correct to use all of is when the adjective phrase is followed by a pronoun— •All of them got pink-eye;•I wanted Edgar to have all of me —unless, however, the relevant pronoun is possessive, in which case you must again omit the of, as in •All my relatives despise Edgar. Only a few weeks ago, however, I learned (from a bright student who had gotten annoyed enough at my constant hectoring to start poring over usage guides in the hope of finding something I'd been wrong about that she could raise her hand at just the right moment in class and embarrass me with… which she did, and I was, and deserved it—there's nothing worse than a pedant who's wrong) that there's actually one more complication to the first part of the rule. With all plus a noun, it turns out that a medial of is required if the noun is possessive, as in •All of Edgar's problems stem from his childhood or •All of Dave's bombast came back to haunt him that day. I doubt now I'll ever forget this. — DFWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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