All/everybody/everything/everyone
All ( все , весь , вся , всё ) is a generalizing pronoun, it takes a group of things or persons as a whole. It can be used as a subject, predicative, object, attribute:
□ ... when all was said and done ...
□ He loved me, that's all.
□ And Martin forgot all about it.
□ ... if all the doors are closed ...
Everybody/everyone ( каждый , всякий , все ) refer to all the members of the group of
persons or taken one by one.
Everything ( всё ) may be applied to things in the same meaning.
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ВСЕ
| with countable nouns plural all (the) ... | with countable nouns singular (the) whole... | subject/object everybody, everyone, everything |
| All the books have been sold out. All plants require water. | Have you read the whole book? He didn't say a word the whole evening. | Everybody (everyone) reads this book. Ann knows everyone in her street. He thinks that he knows everything. Everything went wrong. |
NOTES:
1. We use all ( весь , вся , всё ) with uncountable nouns:
□ He spends all his free time in the library.
□ I've got all the information I want.
2. We use all in the expression all about:
□ He told us all about his trip.
3. We can use all day/the whole day (morning, evening, night, week) meaning the complete
day:
all day (not "all the day")
all week (not "all the week")
all morning, the whole morning
4. All is often used after pronouns we, you, they and the verb to be:
□ We all know it. We are all glad to see you.
□ They all went there. They are all there. Mind the place of all in such constructions:
□ We have all read his article.
□ We shall all be here tonight.
□ We must all go there.
5. Remember the expressions:
we all = all of us you all = all of you they all = all of them
□ You must all go there. = All of you must go there.
□ They all work here. = All of them work here.
" Мы все трое ." c^> All three of us.
" Они все четверо ." c^> All four of them.
гб ~^ -------- 1 __ -- all (that) □ That's all I want.
асе , что \ <=Z^^ everything (that) □ I told him everything I knew.
6. We use a singular verb after every/ everyone / everybody/ everything:
□ Every seat in the theatre was taken.
□ Everybody looks tired today.
□ Everything he said was true.
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7. We use
"every" to say how often something happens:
Every
day
wee k □ We go out every Friday.
Monday ^ Tne DUses run every ten minutes.
ten minutes ^ Ann goes to see her motner every three weeks.
three days
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