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quantity: none, alI, each, every
Useno- with a noun to describe zero quantity or mass.
No animaI can five tor fang without water.
Usenone ot - to mean 'not one' of a group.
None of the students had dane the wark,
Usenone - to mean 'not any', or 'not one' with countables or uncountables.
Countable Wefooked tor same chairs, but there was/were none tree,
Uncountable I thought wehad same mi/k, but there is none lett. (singular verb)
Useall (of) - with aplural noun and verb, often in contrast withsame.
Ali animals need water to live.
Not all the cabbages were eaten. Same were left. - afterbeor an auxiliary verb.
You are all wrong. You have all madeamlstake,
You must all be more caretuI.
Note:all ofhas the same meaning.
Wild rabbits have eaten all of aur/the cabbages. - as a pronoun at the beginning of a sentence.
Ali I could see was hundreds ot bats.
Note:everything is more usual as an object.
I want to know everything that happened.
Usemost (of) - to mean 'nearly ali'.
Most mammals have hair.
Wild rabbits have eaten most of aur/the cabbages,
Useeach (of) - to mean the separate members of a group.
Weput50 ccot water in each test tube.
Note:each otis also possible.
Weput50 ccot water in each of the test tubes /each of them. - withone.
There were tive test tub es, andweput 50 ccot water in each one. - after a subject or at the end of a sentence.
The members ot the team each receivedamedal
Useevery - with a singular noun, to mean ali the members of a group together.
Every person in the c1ass took part in the play
Usewhole - to mean 'ali of something'.
You'd better tellmethe whole story trom the beginning.
The whole c1ass c1apped and cheered