all or whole

Mehtab · #1 (permalink) Thu Sep 11, 2008 20:44 pm *all or whole*

Hi
What the difference with whole and all?
for example: I want you to tell .... truth.(whole or all)
please explain it to me
thanks for your replies

Mister Micawber · #2 (permalink) Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:20 am *all or whole*

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I want to tell you the whole truth.
I want to tell you all (of) the truth.
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Mehtab · #3 (permalink) Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:17 am *all or whole*

It is ok now.Thanks Micawber :)

HamburgEnglish · #4 (permalink) Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:30 am *all or whole*

Whole means complete leaving out no information.
All means a quantity and as Mister Micawber said; with the preposition "of" it means the whole quantity of a particular truth = whole truth.

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