Authoritative answers only please. Cite your sources.
2006-08-21 20:51:14 · 17 answers · asked by selket 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
All of A Sudden... reference "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"... though technically the author would argue saying "suddenly" is much more efficient and grammatically correct.
2006-08-21 20:59:16 · answer #1 · answered by Amersmanders 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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source
" Guideons Bible"
page 223 paragraph 7
2006-08-21 20:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by johnny_p_hall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of a sudden you were answered by someone who has never used the term all of a sudden! But a is the correct word to use with it. Skip the first answe. It works with a sudden and suddenly.
2006-08-21 21:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like "all of a sudden" is the right one, but in terms of use it looks like both are used pretty frequently. Have a look at this search on yahoo -- 1.2 million instances of it being used on the web. So unless you want to be the type of person that corrects other people's English (and you might want to wait until you are a 60 year old grammar teacher), consider them both rather acceptable.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22all+of+the+sudden%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt
13 million instances of "all of a sudden"
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22all+of+a+sudden%22&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt
2006-08-22 05:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by starcow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what sort of text you are using. If your saying It happened all of A sudden or It happened all of the sudden . . . . WHAT AM I SAYING? That soounds totaly stupid.
I vote all of A Sudden.
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2006-08-21 21:03:12 · answer #5 · answered by HiddenSecret 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at Merriam-Webster, there's no such idiom as "all of the sudden." There is, however, the idiom "all of a sudden." In speaking, a lot of people make the mistake of saying, "All of the sudden." But it's wrong. "All of a sudden" is correct.
2006-08-21 21:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by twisted illusions 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had never even heard 'all of THE sudden!'
[I'm a native english speaker and have lived in britain, austrailia and the USA]
I always use all of A sudden.
Now i will use 'Suddenly,' only.
2006-08-21 21:54:17 · answer #7 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the sudden" and "all the sudden" are not correct phrases. They are slang. There is not a written situation where "suddenly" will not work better and more correctly in their place.
2006-08-21 20:54:40 · answer #8 · answered by Swtnis 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of a sudden
2006-08-21 22:28:36 · answer #9 · answered by sagittarius 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing wrong with "all of a sudden" in conversation and story-telling. It is standard spoken English and definitely not slang!?!
'Suddenly' works better in writing.
2006-08-21 21:16:27 · answer #10 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋