No children VS any children
What's the difference of these two answers when you are asked this question:
How many children do you have?
1. I do not have any children.
2. I have no children.
Is it correct to answer the question with answer 1. What's the semantic difference of these two answers/sentences. It is my understanding that "any" is used in negative sentences. Please enlighten me.
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apatzinguense How many children do you have? / I do not have any children. That is conversational English.
- apatzinguense How many children do you have?
- / I do not have any children.
- That is conversational English.
- apatzinguense How many children do you have?
- / I have no children.
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apatzinguenseHow many children do you have? / I do not have any children.
That is conversational English.
apatzinguenseHow many children do you have? / I have no children.
That sound so antiquated, like something from a Victorian novel of the mid-nineteenth century.
0apatzinguense1. I do not have any children.
This is technically correct, but it's not quite right for conversation. Say I don't have any children.
Similarly,
I don't have any
paper, pencils, nice clothes, sugar, plans, ...
apatzinguense2. I have no children.
That could
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