am I correctly using altogether?

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Can you please tell me if im correctly using altogether?
  1. A: "Just clean the bedroom and leave the rest for me, I will do it tomorrow." B: "I would rather clean the house altogether rather than just doing a separate room."
  2. "I am thinking of leaving the country altogether and probably relocate to Ukraine."
  3. "Altogether, we are going to assign the girls to do the assignments and the boys will be responsible for making the powerpoint and collecting the data.
 

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Hello there, and welcome to the forum. :)
Please edit your profile page and provide the correct information on it. You are not in Zaire.
Can you please tell me if im I'm correctly using "altogether"?
  1. A: "Just clean the bedroom and leave the rest for me. I will do it tomorrow." B: "I would rather clean the entire/whole house altogether rather than just doing a separate one/a single room."
No. See above.
  1. "I am thinking of leaving the country altogether and probably relocating to Ukraine."
Yes, but see correction above.
  1. "Altogether, we are going to assign the girls to do the assignments and the boys will be responsible for making the PowerPoint and collecting the data.
What do you mean by "altogether" in that sentence?
 

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Also, please correct your thread title. You've used "currently" instead of "correctly".
 

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Hello there, and welcome to the forum. :)
Please edit your profile page and provide the correct information on it. You are not in Zaire.

No. See above.

Yes, but see correction above.

What do you mean by "altogether" in that sentence?
Thank you.
Will edit my profile.

#3 I meant "Generally"
 

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Thank you.
I will edit my profile.
I see you've changed the info, but to be honest with you, it looks even less credible now. Please be honest with us if you want us to take your questions seriously. Again, edit your profile and provide the correct information.
#3 I meant "Generally"
I will comment on that after you've fixed your profile page.
 

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I see you've changed the info, but to be honest with you, it looks even less credible now. Please be honest with us if you want us to take your questions seriously. Again, edit your profile and provide the correct information.

I will comment on that after you've fixed your profile page.
I have already fixed my profile page.. I don't understand why you're telling me to do that?

Edit* I forgot the native language. Edited it now.
 
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For me, altogether has two distinct uses:

a. altogether = completely
b. altogether = in total

With this in mind, let's look at your sentences:

1) I can't see any way of using either of the uses above here. I think you mean all together.

2) This is a good example of the use of a. above.

3) I suspect you were trying to get at use b. above, but it doesn't make sense, unfortunately.
 
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