Speak Better English with Harry | Collocations with ALL

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Hey there, this is Harry and welcome back to Harry's English grammar lessons and helpful tips to get you to be more confident to speak your English. So what are we going to talk to you about today? Well, we're going to talk to you about co-locations and the first qualifications are those do with the word all a L L. so I have several of these and I'll talk you through each of them slowly with some good examples and hopefully then you'll be able to understand how exactly we can use them. Okay. So if you're comfortable, let's begin. So the first one is all over, all over. So all over means everywhere. All over the world there are people starving all over the world. There are people who are rich or over. Okay? So all over convene everywhere. So one of the children comes in and they knock over a glass of water and the water goes everywhere. All over the floor, all over the table, cloth all over your laptop. And Oh my God, what has happened? It's all over. Yeah. Okay. And we can also use all over in a slightly different way when we want to put some, um, statement or some exclamation about something. Well, the game, it's all over now. Meaning that was the very last kick of the game and there's nothing anybody can do about the result. It's all over. It's finished. Okay then we have all but all. But, and that means almost completely all, but I'm all but out of money, I've only a little bit of money in my pocket or in my, in my bank, I need some more. I'm all but out of money. You're driving along the road and you're looking at the little needle on your, um, the dashboard and you see that all you're in the red zone of the Petro or your fuel. And I go home, I got'em all but out of Petro, I hope I find a petrol station soon so I can fill up my car. Okay. And the next co-location we have is all too. And this is T O all too. And this usually means very, we often use it with expressions all too often or too easy. Okay. You do this all too often? No, he does it all too often. He's been late every day this week. He does it all too often for my liking. We should tell them something or we should give him a warning. Okay. Uh, all too easy. It's all too easy for kids these days. They get anything that they want. In my day, we had to work really hard for something. Well I did. We had to work really hard for everything. So it's all too easy for kids these days. Next one all around. All around, all around means a bit like the first one. We gave you words everywhere or around the world. Yeah. Uh, Oh. You ask one of the children to clean the house and say, okay, look, if you want some pocket money, you're going to have to work for it. You're going to have to do some hoovering and mind you, it's not just where you see, you have to go all around the house, into the corners, up high, down low, get everything. Hoovered never works for my kids, but I keep hoping so all around. You can also say things like all year round. Yeah. Okay. So the weather in the Canary islands is warm all year round. The weather in the tropics is very hot all year round means all of the time, every time you visit. The next one I have for you is specifically to do with sport and in particular is to do with football. So we use all, when we're talking about the results of the score, somebody says, well what's the score on the match? It's one or meaning one goal for one team, one goal for the other team or what was the final result to all math and even game equal. Everybody got a point? So two, all two goals for your team. Two goals for the other team, so one or two, all three or et cetera. Even when there's no score in the game, zero, zero or nil. All. Okay. Zero, zero on NYLO. So what do we have next? Then the next one is all told. Okay. Meaning to get everything together, all told and say, well all told that wasn't such a bad presentation. I mean, it started off well, the middle was okay. We've got a good lot of questions at the end. So all told meaning altogether we could be quite pleased with what we did. So all told meaning all together. Okay. And the next one is know it all. Know it all well this is quite common and often we use it with somebody when we get a little bit and now in with them say, Oh, you know it all. Yeah, you think you know it all or your children, 16 and 17 year olds, uh, 16 or 17 year olds, they know it all, don't they? They think they do. They haven't had the experience that you and I have had. They don't really know it all. So no means when they think they have all the information or you think they have all the information or indeed when you want to give somebody a little bit of a slag in, ha, you know it all don't you? When really they've made a mistake and they didn't really get it correct. Okay. So know it all. Another is a word and now we can say a no war. And when we try and tell us, we speak to somebody that thinks they know everything. Ah, you're just a no all you mean you think you know it all. So know it all and no all slightly different but with the same intention and the same meeting. Okay. And then the next one is to be all something to be all something. And usually we use this with words like to be all smiles. Yeah. Or to be all innocent. Yeah. So what do they mean? Well, to be all smiles as somebody who's always got a smile on face, but behind it there might lurk as hidden. Meaning the guy might not be so sincere with these smiles and say, ah, that guy, he's all smiles. But really you need to be very careful about him because he would stick the knife in when he's, when you're not looking sort of to be all smiles doesn't always mean the person is very nice. Okay. To be all innocent means on some school. It wasn't me, I couldn't have done that. Oh my God. Yeah. So to be all innocent means somebody who denies that they had any part in anything or the, they are acting a little bit innocently and again, there's something there underneath that that you might think they're not as innocent as you think they are. Okay. This could be kids. Yeah. So a little eight or nine year old can be all smiles or all innocent when really they pushed your son over in the park or they did something that pulled the flowers out of your garden. Something really nasty. Okay. So to be all something all smiles or innocent. And this one is one of my favorites, all talk. So all talk often comes with another expression, Alto, but no action. So you can get the hint from that. But exactly. It means, so when we talk about somebody being all talk it's and nah, nah, nah. But they never followed through with any specific action. You know, one of the children, you can ask them, well how are the studies going? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm doing well and I'm going to a few hours here and a few hours there and yeah. And what did you yesterday I had to go to to football yesterday, so I didn't do as much as I wanted to do and, well, what about tomorrow? Well actually there's a football match tomorrow so probably won't be able to do a bit. So I've, God, here we go, all talk about the studies but no relaxation and we'll find out when we get there. The results of the exams, hopefully. Good. So when somebody is all talk, they usually tell you what they're going to do and they'd tell you again what they're going to do and they'll tell you again what they're going to do. But there's no action. They don't follow it through. Okay. And the next one we have is all nature. Okay. This is the sort of a invented world, you know, night N I G, H T isn't night and nighter and I G H T. E. R. so what's an all nighter? Wow. And all night. It can be a really rough party. I've had a few of those in my time, I can tell you. So you know, we went out with the intention of having one or two beers and it ended up being an all nighter. So you're struggling to work the next morning and the bus looked at jr eyes. We're down here somewhere. Oh yeah. And all night. Or was it Harry, is it? Well, you know, we were celebrating. So an all nighter is something that goes on all night long into the night. And when you get there in the morning you think, Oh God, never again. Okay. Where we're there now and just one last one. All in all. All in all it means like taking everything together. Well, all in all, it wasn't such a bad performance was it all in all we, we won the match. We could have played a little bit better, but all in all we got the results we wanted on and all that. The party was quite good. Everything went well, people turned up on time. There's a lot of dancing that is singing. The food was really great. So all in all, I think this place not so bad. We might try it again next year. Okay guys. So that completes the lesson for today and we were talking about co-locations with all, okay. So as I said at the beginning, press that button and subscribe to our channel, and if you want to contact me, you can do so on www.englishlessonviaskype.com and we get there, you'll find a link to my easy peasy English club. It's a great club to help you to learn better English, to speak better English, to make better pronunciation and above all to make you much more confident in your English. Okay, join me again soon.