Engspire × Engreesi

Distributive Determiners - All

All, all the, all of. Talking about the whole group, with nothing left out.

all = ඔක්කොම, හැම එකක්ම. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් කතා කරනවා නම් all + noun. නිශ්චිත කණ්ඩායමක් ගැන නම් all the / all my. us, you, them එක්ක all of.

all + noun (in general)

In general

  • All children need love.
  • I like all dogs. 🐕

all (of) the / my / these + noun (a specific group)

of is optional here. Both are correct.

A specific group

  • All (of) the people in the room went quiet.
  • Have you eaten all the bread?
  • I invited all my friends to the party.
  • Look at all this rain!

all of + us / you / them

With these pronouns, of is needed.

all of + pronoun

  • All of us are going.
  • Did you find all of them?

You can also put all after the pronoun: We all went. I love you all.

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