Whole vs. entire - English Language Usage Stack Exchange There are a few instances where the words are not synonyms These include the botanical entire, meaning a leaf without an indented edge, or in farming parlance entire meaning uncastrated In mathematics you could have a whole number, but not an entire one But if you ignore these special meanings they are more or less interchangeable, except as
Use of the word entire - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Entire means whole, all parts of Now, the entire group (of boys) means the whole group (as opposed to a part of the group), whereas entire boys means whole boys (as opposed to parts of boys — arms, legs, heads) The entire car -> the whole car, tires, seats, engine, etc The entire group of cars -> the whole group, every single car in the group
Whole - Plural Nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Whole businesses means entire businesses, not just parts of businesses In the same way whole families would mean that every member of the family is included - mother, father and children Whole families is the opposite of part families i e those that only include some of the family members, but not all
grammaticality - How to address an entire family in a letter? - English . . . How should you start a letter when addressing an entire family? Dear The Jones Family, or Dear Jones Family, I was discussing this with my wife and I preferred the former while my wife prefers the latter The second one sounds wrong to me but I'm not sure if it is only because I'm not used to it
Where does the period go when using parentheses? Removing the entire parenthetical remark from the first sentence still leaves me with a valid structure, while removing it from the second leaves me lacking any terminal punctuation; thus the first is correct References: The Punctuation Guide; Study com; Grammar Girl
quotations - Meaning of: No man is an island, entire of itself . . . No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were
When to use “staffers” vs “staff”? - English Language Usage . . . A staffer is one member of a staff Complexity comes into this picture in two ways If the term "staffers" meant to be inclusive of all members of a staff with no qualifications this would make the use of the two terms interchangeable since they each refer to the entire staff