Why All Your Coworkers Are Obsessed With the Daily Libra Career Horoscope - Away State Journal
All means ‘every one’, ‘the complete number or amount’ or ‘the whole’. We use it most often as a determiner. We can use a countable noun or an uncountable noun after it: … When all refers to a whole class of people or things, we don’t use the: …
So what's the difference? First you need to understand the difference between "all" and "all the". We use "all" (without an article) when we're talking about the noun in general.
ALL definition: the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration). See examples of all used in a sentence.
You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general. All is silent on the island now. As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late.
n. The whole of one's fortune, resources, or energy; everything one has: The brave defenders gave their all.
the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year. the whole number of (used in referring to individuals or particulars, taken collectively): all students.
All definition: Being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity.
When you talk about all of one thing, you mean the whole thing. When Shakespeare writes, in As You Like It, “ All the world's a stage,” he means the whole world.
