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Zany banana 409 Posted 9 years ago
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Are all these correct?

I don't want apples more than 20/ I don't want more than 20 apples.

I want apples not/no more than 20/ I want not/ no more than 20 apples.

Are all these right to mean I want 20 apples and not more than 20?

Please help!!

  

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Of those options, only these are correct: I don't want more than 20 apples. I want not/no more than 20 apples. But in the second one, "no" is a lot more common than "not".

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  • Of those options, only these are correct: I don't want more than 20 apples.
  • I want not/no more than 20 apples.
  • But in the second one, "no" is a lot more common than "not".
  • zany banana 409 Are all these right to mean I want 20 apples and not more than 20?
  • They don't explicitly say that you want exactly 20 apples (though depending on context I suppose this might be assumed).
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Of those options, only these are correct:

I don't want more than 20 apples.
I want not/no more than 20 apples.

But in the second one, "no" is a lot more common than "not".

zany banana 409Are all these right to mean I want 20 apples and not more than 20?

They don't explicitly say that you want exactly 20 apples (tho

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