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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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I'm an English learner from Japan and I have a question.
Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we maybe need to put some determiner before "no (Adj) + easy (Adj) + task (countable N)". So I think this "NO" is rather a kind of negative article (or determiner) that is equivalent to the German "KEIN". Am I right?
Thank you in advance
I'm an English learner from Japan and I have a question.
Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we maybe need to put some determiner before "no (Adj) + easy (Adj) + task (countable N)". So I think this "NO" is rather a kind of negative article (or determiner) that is equivalent to the German "KEIN". Am I right?
Thank you in advance
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Hi, Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task".
- Hi, Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task".
- What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence?
- My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task".
- But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we maybe need to put some determiner before "no (Adj) + easy (Adj) + task (countable N)".
- So I think this "NO" is rather a kind of negative article (or determiner) that is equivalent to the German "KEIN".
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Hi,
Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we maybe need to put some determiner before "no (Adj) + easy (Adj) + task (co
Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we maybe need to put some determiner before "no (Adj) + easy (Adj) + task (co
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Your dictionary is incorrect or incomplete.
This is no easy task.
article verb adverb adjective noun
An adverb modifies verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. 'No' is modifying 'easy' (which is an adjective) by making it negative.
Tom is no honest man. (same usage here)
No excuse(s) will be accepted. (In this
This is no easy task.
article verb adverb adjective noun
An adverb modifies verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. 'No' is modifying 'easy' (which is an adjective) by making it negative.
Tom is no honest man. (same usage here)
No excuse(s) will be accepted. (In this
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Hi Anon
AnonymousSo I think this "NO" is rather a kind of negative article (or determiner) that is equivalent to the German "KEIN". Am I right?Yes, it is very much like the German word "kein". However, German uses "kein" much more often than we use "no" (as a determiner). In English, we use "not any" more often.
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