List N

not any, no, none; no more, not any more, no longer, not any longer

I.

not (n’t) + any

  • There aren‘t any cars in the car park.
  • Sally and Steve haven‘t got any children.
  • You can have some coffee but I don‘t want any.

no + noun (no cars / no garden etc.)

no … = not + any or not + a:

  • There are no cars in the car park. (= there aren‘t any cars)
  • We’ve got no coffee. ‘(= we haven‘t got any coffee)
  • It’s a nice house but there’s no garden. (= there isn‘t a garden)

We use no … especially after have (got) and there is/are.

negative verb + any = positive verb + no:

  • They haven’t got any children, or They‘ve got no children.
    (not     ‘They haven’t got no children’)
  • There isn’t any sugar in your coffee,  or There‘s no sugar in your coffee.

no and none

Use no + noun (no money / no children etc.):

  • We’ve got no money.
  • Everything was OK. There were no problems.

Use none alone (without a noun):

  • ‘How much money have you got?’   ‘None.’ (= no money)
  • ‘Were there any problems?’   ‘No, none.’ (= no problems)

none and no-one

none = 0 (zero)

None is an answer for How much?/ How many? (things or people):

  • ‘How much money have you got?’   ‘None.’ (= no money)
  • ‘How many people did you meet?’   ‘None.’ (= no people)

no-one = nobody

No-one is an answer for Who?:

  • ‘Who did you meet?’   ‘No-one.’ (or Nobody.)

II.

We use no more to talk about quantity or degree – to say ‘how much’

  • There’s no more bread. She’s no more a great singer than I am.

We do not use no more to a talk about time.
Instead we use no longer (usually before the verb), not… any longer, or not… any more.

  • I no longer support the team. (NOT I no more…)
  • This can’t go on any longer.
  • Annie doesn’t live here any more. (NOT… any more is informal)

List N

nationalise or
naturalise?		 to NATIONALISE =totransfer
ownership from the private sector to the
state
to NATURALISE = to confer full
citizenship on a foreigner
no body or nobody? Use these exemplar sentences as a guide:
It was believed that he had been
murdered but NO BODY was ever found,
and so nothing could be proved. (= no
corpse)
NOBODY likes going to the dentist.
(= no one)

neither, nor and not… either

1. We use neither and not to mean ‘also not’ . They mean the same.
Neither and nor come at the beginning of a clause, and are followed by auxiliary verb + subject.

neither/ nor + auxiliary verb + subject

  • I can’t swim. Neither can I ( NOT I also can’t)
  • I don’t like opera. Nor do I (NOT I don’t too)

2. We can use not…either with the same meaning

  • I can’t  swim. I can’t either
  • I don’t like opera. I don’t either.