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Bookmark or Share- All students - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeAll students. Cambridge Dictionary gives a rule for this situation. When "all" refers to a whole class of people or things, we don’t use "the" and gives this example. All children love stories. (i.e. every child in the world) Obviously, the students participated in march are not all the students in the world, example#1 is not appropriate. digging
- He is a student "of / at / from" Oxford. | WordReference ForumsThere are so many places in Oxford for people to study, and their students are so keen to pass themselves off as going to the famous university, that I'd be suspicious. He is a student from Oxford could well mean he was at some educational establishment in the city other than the university. I think it would only be an appropriate form of words ...
- Student Names or Student's Names or Student's NameFor a list, use "Student Names" or "Students' Names". Remember that nouns can function as adjectives in English. If you want to show group possession, you put an apostrophe after the "s".
- the student/students - WordReference ForumsAdding "all" changes the meaning, from students in general (among whom we may infer there are exceptions) to each and every student, without exception. "The students" (plural with definite article) usually implies all of the group, but "all" makes this explicit. Sometimes "all" is added to "the" + plural noun for emphasis.
- What do you call someone who attends the same university as you?A person who attends the same college or university as you, from a more technical perspective, should probably be called your collegemate (college is more or less a general term for an institution of higher education, at least, in North America) rather than your schoolmate, but I wouldn't say that this term is common enough that you will ever hear someone actually say it in real life.
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