06 All / most / half / none Flashcards
All rabbits love green food.
Most package systems have two cassette decks.
Most pollution could be avoided.
All of the trees/dancing.
We can use all/most + noun to make a generalization.
Most people want a quiet life.
(people = people in general)
Most of the people here are strangers to me.
Most of the trees/dancing.
(the people = a specific group of people)
The majority of package systems have two cassette decks.
More than half the pollution in the world could be avoided.
As well as most, we can also use “majority of” and “more than half”.
A minority of systems have only one deck.
Less than half of survey respondents.
The opposite is “minority of” or “less than half”.
All (of) our rabbits died from some disease.
Copying takes half (of) the normal playing time.
None of these jackets fit me any more.
When we are talking about something more specific, we use all/most/half/none + of + determiner + noun.
Most of the pubs around here serve food.
NOT the most of the pubs.
We had some rabbits, but all of them died.
I read the book, but I couldn’t understand half of it.
We can leave out of after all and half. But when there is a pronoun, we always use of.
We waited half an hour.
I could only eat half a slice of toast.
We can use half a/an to express quantity.
The systems can all copy a tape from one deck to the other.
The rabbits all died.
Who went to the disco? ~ We all did.
It can also come in mid position or after the subject.
The rabbits died. We lost them all.
The rabbits died. We lost all of them.
We can use all after an object pronoun.
Package systems mostly have two cassette decks.
Package systems usually have two cassette decks.
We cannot use most in this position, but we can use the adverb mostly.
None of the rabbits survived. They all died.
None of the trees
None has a negative meaning. We use it with the of-pattern.
Will work with count nouns.
Not all the rabbits died. Some of them survived.
But “not all” means ‘less than all’.
