Q&A - P1 English
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Hi all, All is fine or All are fine ?
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micollh:
Hi all, All is fine or All are fine ?
All is fine. Similarly, everything is fine. -
michyms:
thanks ! confuse when i was asked is or are...i wrote all is fine too.. automatic mah.. then when they ask, i confused..they said all means many what.. i was like.. but we all along say all is fine.. so i ask experts here..micollh:
Hi all, All is fine or All are fine ?
All is fine. Similarly, everything is fine. -
Hi,
actually both "All is fine" and "All are fine" are grammatically correct.
Just need to realize that "All is fine" will be answer if we refer to 1 single person.
"All are fine" will mean that we are talking about a group of people. -
Sorry i don't want to confuse anyone. But all can be singular or plural based on its usage.
refer to website Rule 9 which clearly highlights when All is singular or when it is plural.
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp
What we need to understand is in what context \"ALL\" is used. -
mother777, thanks for your feedback.
I think generically, when the sentence doesn't have a noun, then we should probably stick to \"All is fine\".
But if it will be plural when the sentence is \"All the people are fine\" because now there is a plural noun. -
no issues michyms, glad to be of help.
yet to teach my daughter on usage of All, everybody, somebody etc. will try to teach her today. SA2 is coming soon… -
mother777, good luck to your dd for SA2! May I check on how your dd’s school teach English? Is it in terms of topics - past tense, present tense, future tense etc or is it by themes etc. My dd still in K2, and I’m just hoping to get a sense of how it works in P1.
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My DD school teaches grammar in terms of topics- nouns, verbs etc.
wow your DD is in K2 and you are preparing her for P1, that is real good
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mother777, thanks for sharing, i just wanted to build in some foundation so that my dd doesn't struggle in P1, and she can enjoy school life :rahrah:
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