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Yahyacan Posted 18 years ago
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No more/no longer?

Corrine ---- plays the violin much, because she has taken up the cello.

Can we use both "no more" and "no longer" in the sentence above?
  

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Corrine does not play the violin (much) any more because she has taken up the cello. Corrine no longer plays the violin because she has taken up the cello.

  • Corrine does not play the violin (much) any more because she has taken up the cello.
  • Corrine no longer plays the violin because she has taken up the cello.
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Corrine does not play the violin (much) any more because she has taken up the cello.

Corrine no longer plays the violin because she has taken up the cello.



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I think "No more" is considered pretty literary nowadays... or dialectal.

Cry no more.

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