ALL | SOME | BOTH | HALF + OF + noun phrase – English Grammar Profiler

Here’s an example of determiners premodifying nouns:

I regret some of the things I said to you.

A2 point 18 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined:

form simple noun phrases by pre-modifying nouns with an increasing range of determiners.

A2 point 17 in the category of PRONOUNS:

limited range of pronouns (‘all’, ‘both’) with ‘of’ followed by an object pronoun, to refer to quantity

Following the English Grammar Profile examples we can write the following search for iWeb:

All|some|both|half of _A _NN

1 SOME OF THE THINGS 34111

1 ‘VE 258 2 DONE 153 3 HAPPENED 73 4 LEARNED 62 5 MENTIONED 37 6 TALKED 30 7 HAPPENING 28 8 DISCUSSED 11 9 REGRET 9

10 ACCOMPLISHED 7

2 SOME OF THE WORLD 32364 3 ALL OF THE TIME 23993 4 ALL OF THE INFORMATION 18245 5 SOME OF THE WORLDS 14649 6 SOME OF THE PEOPLE 13502 7 HALF OF THE YEAR 11929 8 ALL OF THE THINGS 10158 9 HALF OF THE SEASON 10061 10 SOME OF THE WAYS 9839 11 SOME OF THE FEATURES 9651 12 SOME OF THE ISSUES 9562 13 SOME OF THE REASONS 9068 14 ALL OF THE PEOPLE 8820 15 SOME OF THE QUESTIONS 8649 16 SOME OF THE BENEFITS 8438 17 ALL OF THE DATA 7671 18 ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS 7518 19 SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS 7270 20 SOME OF THE TIME 7214 21 SOME OF THE PROBLEMS 6972 22 ALL OF THE FEATURES 6885 23 ALL OF OUR PRODUCTS 6635 24 ALL OF THE DETAILS 6596 25 SOME OF MY FRIENDS 6503 26 SOME OF THE INFORMATION 6472 27 SOME OF THE STUFF 6297 28 SOME OF THE OTHERS 6280 29 SOME OF THE CHALLENGES 6278 30 SOME OF THE ITEMS 6170 31 ALL OF THE WORK 6046 32 ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS 5904 33 ALL OF THE ITEMS 5883 34 SOME OF THE COUNTRY 5725 35 SOME OF THE COMMENTS 5475 36 SOME OF THE WORK 5415 37 ALL OF MY FRIENDS 5061 38 SOME OF THE CITY 4991 39 SOME OF MY FAVORITES 4945 40 ALL OF THE BENEFITS 4812 41 SOME OF THE CHANGES 4622 42 SOME OF THE DETAILS 4439 43 SOME OF THE IDEAS 4379 44 ALL OF OUR STUDENTS 4359 45 ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS 4239 46 ALL OF THE PRODUCTS 4143 47 ALL OF THE OPTIONS 4042 48 SOME OF THE MONEY 3988 49 SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS 3964 50 ALL OF THE ELEMENTS 3927 51 SOME OF THE FACTORS 3926 52 SOME OF THE AREAS 3876 53 ALL OF THE MONEY 3823 54 SOME OF THE GUYS 3757 55 ALL OF THE FILES 3732 56 ALL OF THE TOOLS 3663 57 SOME OF THE PLAYERS 3651 58 ALL OF THE PIECES 3647 59 SOME OF THE PRODUCTS 3456 60 SOME OF OUR FAVORITES 3454 61 SOME OF THE OPTIONS 3445 62 SOME OF THE NATION 3425 63 ALL OF THE CONTENT 3408 64 ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS 3392 65 ALL OF THE PARTS 3369 66 ALL OF THE QUESTIONS 3345 67 SOME OF THE CHARACTERS 3289 68 ALL OF THE STUDENTS 3267 69 ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS 3239 70 ALL OF THE COMPONENTS 3225 71 ALL OF MY QUESTIONS 3221 72 SOME OF THE TOOLS 3210 73 SOME OF THE STORIES 3183 74 SOME OF THE TOPICS 3109 75 SOME OF THE SONGS 3090 76 ALL OF YOUR DATA 3073 77 HALF OF THE TIME 2994 78 ALL OF THE CHARACTERS 2954 79 SOME OF THE BASICS 2942 80 SOME OF THE DATA 2937 81 HALF OF THE WORLD 2905 82 ALL OF MY LIFE 2904 83 SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES 2881 84 SOME OF THE PHOTOS 2753 85 SOME OF THE IMAGES 2705 86 SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS 2685 87 SOME OF THE GAMES 2672 88 SOME OF THE PRESSURE 2670 89 SOME OF THE ONES 2665 90 SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES 2639 91 SOME OF THE STUDENTS 2593 92 SOME OF THE MEN 2592 93 SOME OF THE PLACES 2585 94 SOME OF THE NAMES 2570 95 ALL OF THE STEPS 2565 96 ALL OF THE CHILDREN 2550 97 ALL OF OUR CLIENTS 2546 98 SOME OF THE WOMEN 2540 99 ALL OF THE CHANGES 2534

100 ALL OF THE STAFF 2533

both|all of _P

1 ALL OF THEM 223086 2 ALL OF US 169253 3 ALL OF YOU 84154

4 BOTH OF THEM

69220

In addition, both of them speak Korean.

PELIC Korean female level 3 writing class.

5 ALL OF IT 56366 6 BOTH OF US 29308 7 BOTH OF YOU 28987 8 ALL OF WHOM 26238 9 BOTH OF WHOM 14027 10 ALL OF ME 2244 11 ALL OF MINE 1455 12 ALL OF WHO 680 13 ALL OF HIS 586 14 ALL OF HER 491 15 BOTH OF MINE 486 16 ALL OF OURS 478 17 ALL OF ONE 428 18 ALL OF YOURS 411 19 ALL OF HIM 269 20 ALL OF EM 268 21 ALL OF THEIRS 158 22 ALL OF YOURSELF 148 23 ALL OF EVERYTHING 142 24 BOTH OF WHO 135

25 ALL OF MYSELF 123

‘All’ is typically a predeterminer and also functions as a pronoun.  It can take of-phrases. (Similar rules apply for ‘both’, ‘half’, and fractions.)

  • All the children went.
  • All of the children were happy.
  • All went.

1 ALL (DB) 29799350

  • ALL ARE WELCOME
  • ALL THE WORK IS DONE
  • ALL WENT WELL

3 ALL (RR22) 775840
4 ALL (RR) 740585

8 ALL (RR21) 170777 9 ALL (RR31) 91498

10 ALL (RR41) 64668

12 ALL (RR44) 31051

A2 vocabulary:

activities, areas, customers, details, files, guys, ideas, information, pieces, reasons, songs, staff, stories, ways