{"id":72105,"date":"2019-09-14T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72105"},"modified":"2024-02-13T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:33:49","slug":"all-vs-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/all-vs-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"All vs. Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>All and whole<\/strong> have similar meanings. They can both be used with singular nouns to mean complete. The word order is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He lived<strong> all his life<\/strong> in Africa. OR He lived<strong> all of his life<\/strong> in Africa. (Word order: all (of) + determiner + noun)<\/li><li>He lived <strong>his whole life<\/strong> in Africa. (Word order: determiner + whole + noun)<\/li><li>I spent<strong> the whole day<\/strong> in bed.<\/li><li>I spent <strong>all (of) the day<\/strong> in bed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Differences between all and whole<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not normally use <strong>all<\/strong> before indefinite articles (a\/an).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You have eaten <strong>a whole loaf.<\/strong> (NOT You have eaten all a loaf.)<\/li><li>I learned <strong>a whole lesson<\/strong> in ten minutes. (NOT I learned all a lesson in two minutes.)<\/li><li>She wrote<strong> a whole novel<\/strong> in two weeks.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not usually use <strong>whole<\/strong> with uncountable nouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The cat has drunk <strong>all the milk<\/strong>. (More natural than The cat has drunk the whole milk.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whole and whole of<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before proper nouns and pronouns, we use the whole of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The whole of<\/strong> Paris was talking about her affairs. (NOT Whole Paris was talking about her affairs.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See Also<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/and-but-or-because-so.htm\">And, But, Or, So | Worksheet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/kinds-of-adjectives-worksheet.htm\">Kinds of adjectives worksheet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/cbse-class-10-grammar-worksheets.htm\">CBSE Class 10 Grammar Worksheets<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/combining-two-sentences-using-too-to-so-that.htm\">Combining two sentences using so..that.. and too&#8230;to<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/prepositions-exercise-for-class-9.htm\">Prepositions exercise for class 9<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/present-perfect-tense-worksheet-cbse-grade-6.htm\">Present perfect tense worksheet for grade 6<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All and whole have similar meanings. They can both be used with singular nouns to mean complete. The word order is different. He lived all his life in Africa. OR He lived all of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1234,1243,1241,810,1242],"class_list":["post-72105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-all","tag-all-of-whole","tag-all-vs-whole","tag-determiners","tag-whole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77147,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions\/77147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}