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My spelling tool suggests that I should fix "All of the" to "All the" in the following statements:

  1. If we take all of the above notes into account...
  2. All of the methods described above shorten your path to...
  3. Next step will be just to execute all of the statements above...
  4. ...but there is no single answer to all of them.

What would be the correct variant?

Andrey Adamovich
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  • Related and probable duplicate of: http://english.stackexchange.com/q/4906 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/15183 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/65650 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/80696 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/80412 and many more besides. – tchrist Jul 17 '13 at 20:20

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In your first three sentences all the and all of the are interchangeable. Both all and all of can be used if they are followed by a determiner such as the, my, this.

If there is no determiner, then all of is generally not possible:

All of problems have been solved.

Conversely, it has to be all of in front of a personal pronoun. So your sentence 4 is correct as it stands but is not possible as:

... but there is no single answer to all them.

Similarly, we can't say:

All we are coming.

It has to be:

All of us are coming.

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