Hello dear colleagues,,,,
I ‘ve got a question, and I hope you can help me
I was looking for information about the use of “ all “ with the meaning of
“ every one “ or “the complete amount”
In fact I checked different resources and I found out that “ all “ can be used before plural countable nouns and before uncountable nouns.
I found the following examples:
All ( of ) the players are here today.
Here we use the verb in the plural form.
But the examples with uncountable nouns were all of the kind:
She drank all of the juice.
Nothing was mentioned about what kind of verbs should (all + the uncountable noun ) take when they form the subject of the sentence.
So my question is when the word “all” comes before an uncountable noun should it take a singular or a plural verb?
In other words in the following example what verb should we choose?
All the sugar ( was / were ) packed.
I think we should use ( was ) here since we usually use the singular form of verb with uncountable nouns
but I’m not sure about the case here.
I hope you have a clarification for this ….thanks
