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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

the use of the word no

Is the next sentence correct?

no hardware or software issues have been detected
  

Top answer

Hi, N o hardware or software issues have been detected . Correct as shown above. Regards

  • Hi, N o hardware or software issues have been detected .
  • Correct as shown above.
  • Regards
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4 Answers
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Hi,

No hardware or software issues have been detected.

Correct as shown above.

Regards
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No hardware or software problems have been detected.

Issue and problem are not synonyms.
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Hi,

Why do you think problems is better than issues?

"Hardware issues" -- 2,120,000 hits on Google

"Software issues" -- 2,660,000 hits on Google

Regards
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No hardware of software issues have been detected.

This sounds like the result of a hardware–software scan, which searches for problems in your computer.

It seems fashionable these days to use issue as a synonym for problem, even though they have distinct meanings. I've just found an article about this, and I couldn't agree more with it:

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