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Today we are going to talk about distribute it's all and have let's get started.
Distributed to Terminus or simply distributed is referred to a group of people or things and to individual
members of the group.
Note that they show different ways of looking at the individual within a group and they express how
something is distributed shared or divided.
Now let's have a look at the example over here all people want to love and to be loved.
The distributive all refers to people.
And it tells us how many people want to love and how many want to be loved.
Note that the distributive determiner all is used to talk about a whole group with a special emphasis
on the fact that nothing has been left out.
Note that all can be used with uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns by itself.
Now in this usage it refers to the group as a concept rather than as individuals.
Have a look at the example below.
All parents want the best for their children the distributive determiner all is referring to parents
everywhere
all can be used with uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns preceded by the or a possessive adjective.
Now in these uses the word off can be added just after all and with no change in meaning.
Have a look at the sentence over here.
Have you eaten all the cookies in the jar.
Have you eaten all of the cookies in the jar.
Both sentences have the same meaning.
The only difference in the sentence the ad off which does not change is the meaning of the sentence
also note that all can't be used with plural pronouns preceded by off have a look at the sentence below
all of us are going to be there tonight.
Us.
Sure I'll post all can be used in questions or exclamations with uncountable nouns preceded by the demonstrators.
This or that or all can be used with countable nouns preceded by these or those now in these uses the
word of can be added just after all with no change in meaning.
Now let's have a look at the examples below.
Look at all the snow out there.
This sentence is an exclamation the distributive all is preceded by the demonstrate of this which modifies
the uncountable noun Snow
let's have a look at the second sentence.
What are all these people doing in our house.
This is a question and the distributive all is preceded by the demonstrated of these which modifies
the countable noun people.
Now let's have a look at the distributive half the distributive determiner have is used to talk about
a whole group divided into two half can't be used as a distributive in several different patterns.
Let's have a look at those patterns first have can refer to measurements if it is followed by an indefinite
article a or an and then a noun let's have a look at the example below.
I'll be back in half an hour.
Half an hour meaning 30 minutes second half can be used with plural pronouns preceded by off.
For example in the sentence we have only half of us are going to be there tonight.
Meaning that if we are 10 only half of us means only five of us are going to be there tonight
and half can be used with nouns preceded by the a and a demonstrated or a possessive adjective.
Now in this case the meaning refers to a concrete physical division.
Note that the word of can be added just after half with no change in meaning.
Let's have a look at the following examples.
Half the people have already left the party meaning that if 50 people were at the party twenty five
of them have left the party
putting half a kilo of sugar in the topping will ruin the cake meaning that we have to put just a quarter
of sugar in the topping not half a kilo
I want half of that cake meaning that I do not want the whole cake I want half of the cake
sorry but I used half of your eggs making breakfast today meaning that if there were 12 eggs I use only
six eggs from making breakfast.