- No, not, and non - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
At the linguistics conference, there were no not non- native speakers of Esperanto They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically idiomatically, only the no version is likely to be used
- Order of not with infinitive - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The sentence with not between to and the verb (do in this case) is a special case of the split infinitive construction According to CGEL, 2 3 Secondary verb negation, p 803, these two sentences are semantically equivalent, and either is acceptable
- But or But Not? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I brought my luggage but I didn't bring my passport Which one of the following is equivalent? I brought my luggage but not my passport I brought my luggage but my passport
- grammar - Should we use not to or to not? - English Language . . .
You can certainly say it's not OK to not learn from them However, bear in mind that there are still people around who mistakenly believe that such a construction is a split infinitive and should be avoided (They are mistaken because the particle to is not part of the verb so there’s nothing to split ) If you think your readers or listeners may be of this persuasion, you may want to
- parts of speech - When to use not to and to not - English Language . . .
In a word, yes Some people make distinctions between them, and some people used to condemn the ones with to not (for reasons that were never clear, but that's faith for you), but in fact the order is normally a matter of individual style Unless there's special intonation and stress involved; in that case, all bets are off
- grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . .
As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
- grammaticality - It is not . . . but . . . (correct structure) - English . . .
But that presumption does not remove the dissonance or the possibility of misunderstanding In the expression there is or ought to be a rule that where we are dealing with legal, scientific, technical or logical matters, precision trumps brevity and elegance
- No vs not any - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Not any cannot normally be used with subjects, so no and none of appear instead: No brand of cigarette is harmless No tourists ever came here No one (also no-one in BrE) means nobody and cannot be followed by of For ‘ not a single one (of)’, we can use none (of), not any (of) or not one (of) (more emphatic), but no one is not used in this way
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