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Ronctlsmile Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

"barely no sleep" it is a correct phrase

Hey there,

I wonder if "barely no sleep" is grammatically correct. I don't think so. I would say "I barely sleep" or "I got no sleep".
  

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"Barely" is a negative word, so it can't occur with "no" or "not" or "never." Other negative words like "barely" are "hardly" and "scarcely."
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Hi,

The phrase you are probably thinking of it eg 'Last night I got barely any sleep', meaning only a very small amount of sleep.



Clive
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I barely slept last night
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"Barely no sleep" = "I slept pretty much all night, even though I wanted to be awake the whole time" :-)

I think this is the opposite of what you were looking for . Similar wrong phrase that is a famous tattoo on the internet is "don't never give up", which really means "always give up".

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