Grammar Comparison: ‘They Are All Happy’ vs ‘They All Are Happy’
grammar
They are all happy
They all are happy
All they are happy
What is the difference among them?
Best Answer
#1 and #2 are different.
#1 shows that they have only one emotion -- happiness. They aren't also surprised. There is no hint of wonderment. They are completely, unabashedly, and identically happy. The inclusion of every person is less clear, and may be contradicted. The sentence is perhaps idiomatic. Consider this: "The children were all giddy when the clown appeared, but not all of them. Sam retreated to the rear wall, terrified."
#2 shows that all of them, everyone, is happy. Happiness need not be exclusive or all-consuming. For each of them, they are describable as happy.
#3 as it stands isn't grammatically complete. If it were changed to "All they are is happy", it would be like #1, but with more emphasis.
"Are they?" is the standard question form. In a question, we normally begin the sentence with an interrogative word like "where" or "how", or "is" or "are" or "do" or "does".
"They are?" is an example of a declarative statement turned into a question by simply putting a question mark at the end. In speech, it is intoned as a question, i.e. you raise the pitch of your voice at the end of the sentence. This is often done with more complex sentences, too.
For example, "I'm leaving XYZ Corporation." "What? You're going to quit your job?"
The idea is that you put a question mark at the end of a declarative sentence to express surprise or disbelief in the statement.
The band just completed a European tour and announced that they were breaking up
because all actions belong to the past?
It's not clear that all the actions do belong in the past. Remember, the present progressive, despite its name, can have a future meaning:
We're going to the movies tonight.
If the had announced their breakup in 1997, you should definitely say, were breaking up. But since the announcement is still recent (at the time of writing), the actual breakup could still be in progress, or planned for the near future, and are breaking up is appropriate.
Best Answer
#1 and #2 are different.
#1 shows that they have only one emotion -- happiness. They aren't also surprised. There is no hint of wonderment. They are completely, unabashedly, and identically happy. The inclusion of every person is less clear, and may be contradicted. The sentence is perhaps idiomatic. Consider this: "The children were all giddy when the clown appeared, but not all of them. Sam retreated to the rear wall, terrified."
#2 shows that all of them, everyone, is happy. Happiness need not be exclusive or all-consuming. For each of them, they are describable as happy.
#3 as it stands isn't grammatically complete. If it were changed to "All they are is happy", it would be like #1, but with more emphasis.