Dear teachers,
My teacher wrote on the black board:
We all both arrived late.
Do you think this sentence is correct?
(Normally, “both” refers to 2 things or people, “all” refers to more than 2 things or people. So, why can they be together ?)
The sentence: We both all arrived late is corect?
Thanks
Quoc
Yankee
August 29, 2006, 5:04pm
2
Hi Quoc
I’d consider both of you sentences to be wrong.
You should write either:
We both arrived late.
-OR-
We all arrived late.
Amy
Alan
August 29, 2006, 7:09pm
3
Hi Quoc,
Was your teacher having a joke when he wrote this? We all both ??? - very strange indeed.
I would say We both arrived or The two of us arrived
I’m fascinated with why you teacher writes funny things on the board!
Alan
Yankee
August 29, 2006, 7:30pm
4
.
Maybe the teacher wrote or meant to write:
“We all/ both arrived late.”
.
Alan
August 29, 2006, 8:00pm
5
Perhaps Quoc could enlighten us. I think we should get to the bottom of this.