1.作主语

Both of the brothers are honest.
All of my friends do not smoke.

2.作宾语或同位语

Mother loved both of them/them both.
He visited all of us/us all.

3. 作介词宾语或主语补语

I’m fond of both.
That’s all I want to say.

4.用作限定词

Both banks of the river were covered in bushes.
All six boys arrived late.(修饰可数名词）

All my flowers are dead.→My flowers are all dead.
Both my sisters want to go.→My sisters both want to go.

They can both play well.
They’ve all gone to the town.

位于助动词与动词之间。

1.all可修饰不可数名词，而whole不可以。whole修饰单数名词，前面加不定冠词，而all通常在其后用the或省略

The whole bottle was spilt.

2.all一般用于复数可数名词前，也可用于不可数名词前。

All the bottles were broken.
All the ink was spilt.

all后常可直接跟名词复数，一般需用of结构，而whole一般不修饰复数名词

I have read all of the books.

和all连用的单数名词有：all the time, all one’s life, all this noise等

3.all the与the whole of常可通用

All the world/The whole world mourned for his death.

4.all置于物主代词、冠词或其他限定词之前，而whole则置于这些词后

all my life

my whole life

He hasn’t paid it all. (=He has paid some of the money.)
I cannot promote both of you. (=I can promote one of you.)

比较全部否定：

I can promote neither of you.
I cannot promote either of you.