Which one do we use for this sentence :
Student chairs will all be present for this meeting or "will be all present"
1 Answer
Use either:
Student chairs will all be present for this meeting.
or
All student chairs will be present for this meeting.
The forms:
Will all be present at the meeting? or Will all student chairs be present at the meeting?
are valid if you are asking a question.
answered Oct 16, 2014 at 19:00
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Those are the two canonical Quantifier-Float sentences; all can float from a position modifying its bound NP (chairs) to an adverbial position before a verb. However, Student chairs will be all present is OK in at least one circumstance: if "all present" is a fixed phrase -- e.g, short for "all present and accounted for" -- then this is just a predicate adjective. This assumes, by the way, that student chairs refers to people, not furniture. Except in a very unlikely scenario. Commented Oct 16, 2014 at 19:16