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All of a sudden, all of the sudden, or suddenly?

What's your preference of grammar?

25 comments

All of a sudden?

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- the only accepted use of it is all of a sudden
  
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- Ha, I had the same reaction but the opposite way: the sudden?
  
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Suddenly?

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- All my troubles seemed so far away?
  
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  Don’t you mean, “I’m not half the man I used to be”?
  
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- All of a sudden could be replaced with the adverb suddenly
  
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  Yes indeed.
  
  I posted this as something of a template of an idea for Lemmy lacking polls..
  
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All of a sudden or suddenly. Leaning back on old camp counsellor story telling, I think all of a sudden would be better for building tension whereas a quick, staccato **suddenly! **acts like a verbal bang or jump start, if that makes any sense.

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- I like that, suddenly is sudden to the listener, all of a sudden is surprising to the story's characters, and makes the listener anticipate that surprise without being able to warn them about it
  
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A or C.

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The suddens of all

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- Found the psycho 😂
  
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https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/all-of-a-sudden/

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"All in the suddens" but ironically in a German accent

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All of the sudden, but ironically. I like to deadpan-drop Yogi Berra-isms.

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Suddenly pineapples.

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- Suddenly Seymour.
  
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- The best asdf bits are ones without any prior context.
  
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All of the sudden?

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- the only accepted use of it is all of a sudden
  
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  You could still make those words work together in that order, though.
  
  All of the sudden stops came to an end after we passed granny on the highway!
  
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- I believe this one is more common in my area
  
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  I'm sorry to hear that.
  
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