🔘All and whole📌

🔗1. All and whole have similar meanings. They can both be used with singular nouns to mean complete.

■The word order is different.
◇He lived all his life in Africa. OR He lived all of his life in Africa. (Word order: all (of) + determiner + noun)
◇He lived his whole life in Africa. (Word order: determiner + whole + noun)
◇I spent the whole day in bed.
◇I spent all (of) the day in bed.

🔗2. Differences between all and whole

■We do not normally use all before indefinite articles (a/an).
◇You have eaten a whole loaf. (NOT You have eaten all a loaf.)
◇I learned a whole lesson in ten minutes. (NOT I learned all a lesson in two minutes.)
◇She wrote a whole novel in two weeks.

○We do not usually use whole with uncountable nouns.
◇The cat has drunk all the milk. (More natural than The cat has drunk the whole milk.)

🔗3. Whole and whole of

■Before proper nouns and pronouns, we use the whole of.
◇The whole of Paris was talking about her affairs. (NOT Whole Paris was talking about her affairs.)

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