WHOLE
It's
usually followed by singular nouns which can be counted, singular
countable nouns.
For
instance: The whole car, the whole month, the whole world
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Before place names we usually use “THE whole OF”.
For
instance: The whole of Barcelona, The whole of America
ALL
It's
usually followed by plural nouns and by nouns that cannot be counted,
uncountable nouns.
For
instance: All the children, all the people, all the dialogue
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Be careful with the word order: "ALL the" "The/A
WHOLE"
WHOLE
and ALL
They
are sometimes possible in some common time expressions. Also with
some words depending on the sense you want to give them.
Examples
of time expressions: All the week / The whole week. All the
morning / The whole morning. All the life / The whole life
Examples
of some words and expressions. ALL THE it means the contents. THE
WHOLE it means the continent: All the office (the people working
within the office) / The whole office (it means the building)
!!! ALL
almost never loses “the”. For instance ALL Europe.
More info:
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=whole
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=all
