All of a sudden, all of the sudden, or suddenly?
All of a sudden, all of the sudden, or suddenly?
What's your preference of grammar?
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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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"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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All of a sudden?
Ha, I had the same reaction but the opposite way: the sudden?