Determiners: Quantifiers

Determiners in this group are mainly quantifiers: they show how much of a class or category we are talking about (all, most, 

none.........).

Determiners are the words that introduces nouns and provide contexto about the nouns, such as quantity, possession, specificity, or definitenesse. They halp to clarify what we are reffering to and how much or whose it is. 

Other uses

Besides their use as determiners in noun phrases, these words can generally be used without following nouns if the meaning is clear. Compare:

He doesn't eat any meat, and not much fish.

Fish? He eat some, but not much.

All

All refers to three or more items. Comare:

• I will take all three shirts, please. 
• I wiil take both shirts. (not... All two shirts) 

All of, with noun phrases and pronouns

All of modifiers noun phrases or pronouns. 

Ex: All of the people were singing. 

I haven't read all of it. 

Give my love to them all. 

All with the subject or the verb 

When all modifiers the subject, it can go either with the subject or with the verb. 

All the people were singing. 

The people were all singing 

All without a noun 

All can sometimes be used without a noun to mean 'everything' but only in certain structure. 

Ex: All that matters is to be happy. 

That's all. 

All, with Adjectives, Adverbs, etc: all alone

All can be used to emphasise some Adjectives, prepositions and Adverbs. 

Ex: you're all wet. 

I was all alone. 

It's all Because of you. 

She walked all around the town. 

Tell me all about your plans. 

I looked all around, but I couldn't see anything.

Every (one) 

Every + singular 

Very is a determiner. We normally use it before a singular noun. If the noun is a subject, its verb is also singular. 

Every + singular noun (+ singular verb) 

I see her every Day (not.... Every days) 

Every room is being used. (not.... Every room are..) 

Every one of 

We use every one of before a pronoun or a determiner (for exemple the, my, these). The pronoun or noun is plural, but a following verb is singular. 

Every one of us/you/them (+ singular verb) 

Every one of + determiners + plural noun (+ singular verb) 

Ex: His books are wonderful. I've read every one of them. 

Every one of the children was crying. 

Every one without noun

We can drop a noun and use every one alone, if the meaning is clear. 

Ex: His books are great. Every one's worth reading. 

Negative structures

To negate every, we normally use not every. 

Ex: not every kind of bird can flay. ( more natural than every kind of bird cannot flay) 

Every + plural noun

Every is used before a plural noun in expressions that refer to intervals. 

Ex: I see her every few days. 

There's a meeting every six weeks. 

She had to stop and rest every two or three steps. 

Everybody, etc

Everybody, everyone, everything, and everywhere are used with singular verbs, like every. 

Ex: Everybody has gone home. (not... Everybody have). 

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. 

I found that everywhere was closed. 

When Possessives and pronouns refer back to everybody /everyone, they can usually be either singular (more formal) or plural (less formal). Sometimes only a plural word makes sense. Compare:

Has everybody got his or her ticket? (more formal) 

Has everybody got their ticket? (less formal) 

Note that everyone /everybody does not mean the same as every one (which can refer to things as well as people) 

Everyday

Everyday is an adjective meaning 'ordinary', 'usual', 'routine'. It is not the same as the adverbial expression every day. Compare:

In Everyday life, you don't often find an elephant in a supermarket. 

You don't see elephant every day. 

Every and all

Every and all can both used to talk about people or thing in general, or about all the members of a group. There is little difference of meaning: every often suggests 'without exceptions'. The two word are used in different structure. 

Every with singular nouns; all with plural 

Every is used with a singular noun. To give the same meaning, all is used with a plural noun. Compare:

--Every Child needs love. (not.... All child needs love). 

All children need love. 

--Every Light was out. 

All (of) the lights were out. 

 Every not used with determiners 

We can use all (of), but not normally every, with certain determiners (articles, Possessive or Demonstrative). Compare:

--all (of) the plates were broken. 

Every plates was broken. (not every the plate/ the every plates) 

--I've written to all (of) my friends.

I've written to every friend I have. (not... Every my friend/ my every friend) 

All with uncountables

We can use all, but not every, with uncountable nouns. 

I like all music. (not... Every music) 

All day and every day, etc. 

Note the difference between all day/ week, etc and every day/week, etc. 

She was here all day. (= from morning to might) 

She was here every day. (monday, tuesday, wednesday.....).