Unit 87
All, every and whole
(a) All everyone everybody everything
All имеет ограниченное применение:
- Everybody liked her singing. (а не `All liked...')
- She knows everyone in her department. (а не `... all in her
department')
- I believe he knows everything. (а не `knows all')
- It was an awful week-end. Everything went wrong. (а не `all went wrong')
All может употребляться в выражении all about :
- Mike told me all about you.
и в значении the only thing(s) :
- All I've visited in my life was Paris.(=единственное место,где я был)
(b) Глагол в единственном числе употребляется после
every / everyone / everybody / everything :
- Every seat in the hall was taken.
- Everybody looks sleepy today.
- Everything he promised was done.
Но формы множественного числа they / them / their
пупотребляются после everyone / everybody :
- Has everyone taken their seats? (= his or her)
- Everybody said they would point at him. (= he or she)
с All and whole
Whole ,в основном, употребляется с существительными
в единственном числе и с the / my / her и т.д. :
- Have you seen the whole film? (= all the film, not just a part of it)
- He was very angry. He argued the whole evening.
- She has spent her whole life doing nothing.
the whole book / all the book her whole life / all her life
`a whole' можно употребить в:
- Nick ate a whole cake in the morning. (= a complete cake)
(d) Every / all / whole со словами, обозначающими время.
every показывает, как часто что-либо происходит
(every day / every week / every Monday
every ten minutes / every three weeks и т.д.) :
- We visit our parents every summer.
- He phones her every ten minutes.
- Ted goes to work every day.
( All day / the whole day = целый день):
- They'll spend all day / the whole day at home.
- I've been looking for the professor all morning / the whole morning.
- She's been away all week / the whole week.
Отметьте, мы чаще говорим all day / all week и т.д.
(а не all the day / all the week)