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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

no person

0Can I say,02br
00No person wants to take care of this garden. 0-
  

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0 Nobody - or - not one person to be more emphatic0-

  • 0 Nobody - or - not one person to be more emphatic0-
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11 Answers
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0 Nobody - or - not one person to be more emphatic0-
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1i00Not 01b00any 02b00one person02i02br
00seems more idiomatic to me, but the stats don't support that:-)02br
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00Also:02br
01i01b00No one02b00 02i02br
00--------- 02br
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00by Rita Robinson - 05100 - 2002
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0 02br
00 I agree, I have heard 01b00not any one person02b00, but to me 01b00not one person02b00 seems more idiomatic. 02br
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00by Philippa Gregory - 05100 - 2007 - 518 pages02br
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00Page 202br
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00From the king to the kitchen maid there was 0
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0Hi,02br
01font01b00...02b00 and they are characteristics that can be found in the hand. 01b00Not any one person02b02br
00is going to have all of them, nor are all the markings going 01b00...02b02font
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00The focus here is not 'Nobody has all of them',
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0 01blockquote
01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
11font11b10...12b10 and they are characteristics that can be found in the hand. 11b10Not any one person12b12br
10is going to have all of them, nor are all the markings going 11b10...12b12font

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0Can I say,02br
00There is nobody / no one taking care of this garden. 0-
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0 Yes02br
02br
00but you could drop 'There is'02br
00nobody / no one is taking care of this garden. 0-
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0Can I say,02br
00Nobody takes care of the garden so it looks messy. 0-
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0 I would use02br
00Nobody bothers (to take care of) about the garden, that's why it looks so messy/untidy/unkempt 0-
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0 01blockquote
01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
11font11b10...12b10 and they are characteristics that can be found in the hand. 11b10Not any one person12b12br
10is going to have all of them, nor are all the markings going 11b10...12b12font


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