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No vs not any vs none
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Sam
Hi, I’m Sam from BBC Learning English, and today we’re looking at the difference between
no, not any and none. Let's have a look.

Imagine you ask me this question: Do you have any change?

I have zero change, and I can say this in three different ways:

Sorry, I have no change. – where we use the verb have with no followed by a noun.

Sorry, I don’t have any change. – where we use the negative don’t followed by the verb
followed by any followed by the noun.

Or, I can say: Sorry, none at all – where we use none without a verb or a noun, so it's a
short answer.

So now you shouldn’t have any problems with this!

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