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Bookmark or Share- No, not, and non - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange32. Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non - is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives. Consequently there are lots of exceptions to the general rules below. Non - is not a word, but a part of another word, usually a descriptive adjective: non-lethal ...
- punctuation - How are "yes" and "no" formatted in sentences? - English ..."No," I replied, "he is unavailable." I hoped the answer would be yes, she could go. In so many words, I had to tell him no. In the last two examples, the words "yes" and "no" summarize the nature of the response, but do not necessarily reflect any spoken words.
- Should one use "of" when abbreviating "number of..." using "no."?This then creates a conflict between the abbreviation no. meaning number (from French nombre) and № (from the Latin numero). 1. Back to the question - Since it is common to use the abbreviation 'no.' to mean number of, particularly in technical circumstances such as yours, it seems perfectly appropriate to abbreviate it as you have. I would ...
- What is the correct abbreviation for the word "numbers"?1. But no. is surely the abbreviation for "number" and nos. is the abbreviation for "numbers" in the Oxford Instructions. The "do not take a final 's' in the plural" only applies to lb, mm, kg, and so forth, and is irrelevant to this question. – Peter Shor. Sep 24, 2011 at 17:59.
- parts of speech - Yes, no, adverbs, and interjections - English ...No, you are mistaken. According to ODO (yes, no), they are being used as exclamations which are presumably the same as interjections. Webster (yes, no) and Macmillan (yes, no), on the other hand, reckon that they are adverbs. Wiktionary (yes, no) chucks another spanner by stating that yes is being used as an adverb while no is being used as an ...
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