Sunday, 25 April 2010

All and whole

- All + determiner + noun = determiner + whole + noun

  • all my life/ my whole life

  • Julie spent all the summer at home/ Julie spent the whole summer at home


- more common: whole + singular countable noun
- more common: all + uncountable noun

  • She wasted the whole lesson

  • She’s drunk all the milk.

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