She read the entire series last month.

[Kharkhun]

Which of the following is more natural? I would go for the first one. Yet, I don't understand why we can't use the latter.

1. She read the entire series last month.
2. She read the all series last month.

 

[dodonaomik]

Not a teacher.



She read [STRIKE]the all [/STRIKE]series last month
We should say: She read all the series last month.





entire:
(used when you are emphasizing that the whole of something is involved) including everything, everyone or every part
Synonym:whole

The entire village was destroyed.
I wasted an entire day on it.
I have never in my entire life heard such nonsense!
The disease threatens to wipe out the entire population.


So in my opinion, entire is not appropriate to be used here.

 

[5jj]

'Entire' is fine.

 

[SoothingDave]

"All the series" doesn't work for me. A "series" is one thing. You wouldn't say "all the movie."

But "the entire series" is most natural.

 

[dodonaomik]

"All the series" doesn't work for me. A "series" is one thing. You wouldn't say "all the movie."

I thought of a sentece as the following:
In the special class for gifted young of USTC(University of Science and Technology of China) , all the students are very intellectual.


I think that a student is different from another student,
similarly in fact a serie is different from anothe serie, then why can "series" be regarded as one thing?
I really cannot understand it.

 

[MikeNewYork]

The word "serie" was marked obsolete in the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary.