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Placement of “tout” as an object in a sentence

“Elle a fait tout” sure sounds strange, but I wouldn’t assure it is wrong. I wouldn’t say it this way in most cases but that could happen sometimes, especially at speaking. When you put something behind “tout”, it becomes mandatory to put “tout” at the end: “Elle a fait tout son possible” (= “She did everything she could”).

About “they all have done everything”, there is a mistake: “tous” must be “toutes” since it refers to “elles”. So like I said, it’s mostly “Elles ont toutes tout fait”, but I couldn’t tell if “Elles ont toutes fait tout” is really wrong.

Tout clarifies the meaning of a verb, an adverb or a noun.

  • In the case tout is clarifying a verb or an adverb, it is an adverb and is invariant.

  • In the case tout is clarifying a noun, it is an adjective and has to be made agree with the noun :

    • tout masculine sing.
    • tous masculine plur.
    • toute feminine sing.
    • toutes feminine plur.

As an adverb specifying an adverb

Tout has to precede the word he specifies :

Elle fait tout simplement
Elle a tout simplement fait

Here to specifies the adverb simplement


As an adverb specifying a verb

Tout has to follow the verb
In the case of a compound tense, tout has to follow the conjugated part

Elle fait tout.
Elle a tout fait

In both cases, tout specifies the verb faire


As an adjective

Tout has to precede the determiner :

Tous les jours
Tout le nouveau quartier
Toutes les nouvelles fleurs

 

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