Hi this is Tutor Nick p and this is Lesson 455. The
title of today's lesson is "The difference between
all-time and all the time. " Yeah. This is one where students sometimes
get confused. There's a lot of students that think. All-time actually means the
same thing as all the time. No. So in this video we
will clearly show you the differences between
the two. Okay. Let's take a look at the board for a
second. All right. If someone used the adjective all-
time or all time. So either with a hyphen or without a hyphen.
If it comes directly before a noun you probably should be using it with a
hyphen. If it's just on its own then probably
without a hyphen. He or she is usually comparing a
particular thing or person with all the other ones
of the same type or in the same category that ever existed before.
So you're saying this one is like the best of
all those from before. Well maybe even the worst.
You could say all-time worst as well as all-time best.
All right. Let's continue. It could also have a second meaning
that something has not been surpassed or beaten up to the
present time. So nothing has you know, gone above it. Okay. Let's
continue. Now all the time is an adverb
which means that something occurs or is done
very often. So it happens all the time or continually. All right. And we have seven
examples here to show you all these ideas. So here's the
first one. Bobby Bonds is the all-time major league
home run leader. Yeah. So meaning that right now, in the major leagues. There's
no other player that hit more home runs than him. So it's used in sports a lot.
that somebody could be the all-time you know something. Some sort of champion
or you know, he has this record the all-time record,
That's the best that there is. At least at the present time.
All right. Number two here. The movie ... that movie is my all-time favorite. So it
could be used this way like on a personal sense. You
know, if you are the one who's the judge and
the jury about this movie. This is your all-time favorite. No other
movie is ... beats this one. This is the best one.
Okay. Good. All right. The next one. Number three. The value of gold in recent
months has hit an all-time high.
So you know of course, it goes up and down a little bit. It might have fell
down below the all-time high again too but you know it might
again in the near future go back up above that. But the point is in the last
few months it did it surpassed its old record and it hit an all-time
high just in this last month or two. Okay.
Let's go on. All right. Number four. I think this is
the best mystery novel of all time. All right. So
again here you don't have all time directly before the noun so you probably
will use it without the hyphen. All right. And again this is your
personal opinion. Okay number five . I cannot be with you
all the time. Remember sometimes we say all the time means continually.
I can't be with you continually. You have to learn how to do this on your
own. Okay. Good. Number. Six. It is so
frustrating. I make this mistake all the time. Meaning you make this
mistake very often. You do it all the time. Okay. And. number seven here.
That's not unusual. Like maybe the other person did think this was unusual.
That happens all the time. That, that happens often.
That happens a lot . So yes it happens all the time. Okay. Anyway, I've got it. I
hope you can clearly see the difference between all-time
and all the time now. And you have a much better idea when you would use
which one. Okay. Thank you for your time. Bye -bye.