(1) all和whole常含有相同的意思，但词序不同：all放在冠词、物主代词或其他限定词之前；whole用在冠词等之后，后接名词。

• all the world            the whole world
• all the time            the whole time
• all that afternoon            that whole afternoon
• all my life            my whole life
• all his energy            his whole energy
• all this confusion            this whole confusion

 (2) 但如没有冠词或其他限定词，whole不能与单数名词连用。

{	The whole city was burning. (正) 整座城市都在燃烧。 Whole city was burning. (误)

 (3) “the whole” 不能接复数的普通名词或专有名词，如，不能说the whole books/students/China，应说the whole book, the whole of the students, the whole of China, the whole of my time, the whole of the western world。

 (4) 与复数名词连用时，all与whole含义不同。whole意为“全部的、整个的”；all意为“所有的”，与every相似。

• All Indian tribes/Every Indian tribe suffered from white settlement in America. 所有/每个印第安部落都由于白人在美洲的定居而遭受了磨难。
• Whole Indian tribes were killed off. (=Complete tribes were killed off; nobody was left alive in these tribes.)整个的印第安部落都被杀绝了。

 (5) whole一般不与不可数名词或物质名词连用。如，可以说all the money, all the wine，但不用whole。

 (6) 短语the whole of 可与单数名词连用，放在冠词、物主代词等之前，如：the whole of the time, the whole of this confusion, the whole of my life等。