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all your sentence is wrong

or

all your sentences are wrong?


all your cows/cow are/is dead.
 

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One sentence or several sentences (plural)?
One cow or several cows (plural)?

ps. Please start your sentences with a captal letter.
 

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One sentence or several sentences (plural)?
One cow or several cows (plural)?

ps. Please start your sentences with a captal letter.

One sentence can be defined as ALL also??
 

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I'm not saying it's flat out wrong, but "all your" sounds strange with singular objects. I'd only use it for plural objects:

"All your bases belong to us."
"All your cows are dead."
"All your sentences are incorrect."

Technically, there should be an 'of' between 'all' and 'your', but sometimes native speakers omit it.
 

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One sentence can be defined as ALL also??

I wouldn't use "all" in the sentence "Your all sentence is wrong". It sounds weird to me. I would say - Your whole sentence is wrong.

But "All your sentences are wrong" seems correct to me.
 

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Technically, there should be an 'of' between 'all' and 'your', but sometimes native speakers omit it.

I would also said "All of your sentences are wrong". Without "of" it makes me feel that I missed something.

Is it serious mistake? Which one ("all your..." or "all of your...") sounds better grammatically?
 

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Both 'All your sentences ...' and 'all of your sentences ...' are grammatically correct.
 
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