2016年5月26日 · "no-one" is sometimes used with a hyphen - some people believe that this avoids confusion with the other usage of "no one" meaning "no single", as in "No one man should have this much power." So, really it's a matter of preference. "no one" is more formally correct, but since there's a valid argument to use "no-one" when you mean "nobody" and ...

2018年3月26日 · No one is correct. John can not like you more than John likes you therefore saying no one else is insinuating that other than John, no one likes you more. Therefore stating that John likes you more than John does, which is impossible.

No one but her ever made a perfect score on the test. In the above sentence, but could be replaced with except (for) or excluding. However, if you define it as a conjunction, the subjective (nominative) case could also be used. No one but she ever made a perfect score on the test. The above sentence is coordinated from the below sentence:

If you look at e.g. pushover vs doormat, one is referring to how easily someone is influenced (easy to push over) whereas the other references a specific state of a person (they are dominated). To me this reflects both the situations in which the words are better suited (as I indicated above) and also adds greater force to doormat when used to ...

2016年2月28日 · "No one" is singular, just like "one" and "someone", so the plural verb "know" is incompatible. There is nobody answering the question. The grammar of this one is correct, but it has a different meaning. This would be appropriate if you want to say no one is answering the question right now, e.g. if a teacher posed a question to the entire ...

2014年9月23日 · Since it is possible to have multiple errors or exceptions, the plural form is the standard one — see There are no comments / There is no comment. However, given that the emphasis is on the absence of bad things, rather than on a …

Likewise, "no one has ever gone thirty days without food and lived" is perfectly grammatical, and in fact some dictionaries say that it's preferable in formal writing. – RegDwigнt Commented Jun 1, 2012 at 12:10

(‏איך האָב ניט קין הױז) 'I don't have a house' (lit 'I have not no house') Using negatives this way is known as Negative Concord. Many English dialects, especially in informal registers, have a negative concord system; one well-known example is AAVE.

2018年12月26日 · There's a subtle difference - the first is a bit more emphatic - but they're otherwise equivalent. Google Ngrams shows that "didn't see / did not see" (the ngram collapses the 2 into one search) has increased in popularity over the last 40 years in particular.

2015年10月1日 · No is half of the answer pair Yes/No, shading off into Nah, Nuh-uh, and Uh-uh. But it can also quantify and negate any noun phrase: Some blade of grass ~ No blade of grass; One who saw it ~ No one who saw it. Not is the general negator for verb phrases, including predicate adjectives and nouns.