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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

no / not a

0The police went into a small house but ___02br
00A.no persons did they find02br
00B.not a person did they find02br
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00which is better?0-
  

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0 Both are grammatical. 02br 00CB 0-

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0 Both are grammatical. If the police found no one, it seems pointless to me to use the plural (persons).02br
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1i00The police went into a small house but 01b00found no one02b00.02i02br
01i00The police went into a small house but 01b00didn't find anyone02b00.02i02br
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00are more natural, IMO. 0-
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0B works for me, but it would not be very common in everyday writing or speech. It sounds fairly literary.02br
00In my opinion, A is extremely far removed from any kind of typical idiomatic usage. I'd say it's far more unusual than B. 0-
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