{"id":72407,"date":"2019-09-29T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72407"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T08:56:13","slug":"no-vs-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/no-vs-none\/","title":{"rendered":"No vs. None"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We use no <\/b>immediately before a singular or plural noun.<\/p>\n
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  • No man <\/b>is mortal.<\/li>\n
  • They have no food <\/b>and will starve.<\/li>\n
  • We have got no plans <\/b>for the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Before a determiner (e.g. the, this, my) or a personal pronoun, we use none of.<\/b><\/p>\n

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    • We invited several friends. But none of them <\/b>came.<\/li>\n
    • None of the keys <\/b>would open the door.<\/li>\n
    • None of my friends <\/b>remembered my birthday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      When we use none of <\/b>with a plural noun or pronoun, the verb can be singular or plural.<\/p>\n

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      • None of them has <\/b>come yet. (more formal)<\/li>\n
      • None of them have <\/b>come yet. (more informal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        None <\/b>can be used alone, without a noun, if the meaning is clear.<\/p>\n

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        • Is there any beer in the house? No, there is none. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Note that we use neither of<\/b>, not none of<\/b>, to talk about two people or things.<\/p>\n

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          • Neither of my parents<\/b> lives with me. (NOT None of my parents —)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            No\/none and not a\/any<\/h3>\n

            No<\/b> can be used instead of not a<\/b> or not any<\/b> when we want to emphasise a negative idea.<\/p>\n

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            • Sorry, I can\u2019t stop. I have got no time.<\/b> (More emphatic than — I haven\u2019t got any time.)<\/li>\n
            • He is no fool. <\/b>(More emphatic than He is not a fool.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              None of<\/b> can be used instead of not any of.<\/b><\/p>\n

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              • She has done none of the work <\/b>I told her to do. (More emphatic than She hasn\u2019t done any of the work —)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                After no<\/b>, countable nouns are usually plural.<\/p>\n

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                • He has got no children.<\/b> (More natural than He has got no child.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  But note that we use a singular noun when the sense makes it necessary.<\/p>\n

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                  • He has got no wife<\/b>. (NOT — no wives.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    We use no immediately before a singular or plural noun. No man is mortal. They have no food and will starve. We have got no plans for the summer. Before a determiner (e.g. the,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1638,1641,1640,1639],"class_list":["post-72407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-no","tag-no-or-none","tag-no-vs-none","tag-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72408,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407\/revisions\/72408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}