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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

'There is no agreement between them.'

I have learned that reach an agreement and reach agreement have a different meaning and whether the word agreement is countable or uncountable, there is a meaning and usage difference and then I was wondering what it could mean?

'There is no agreement between them.'

I think that it could mean both and should we tell what it mean in context or is there a certain rule to tell what it means?

And I have learned that no can't be used with articles but I have heard of 'It's no go' and' It's a no go' and then articles are used with no and should it be 'There is a no agreement between them' to mean not an agreement?

What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
  

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Hans51 I have learned that reach an agreement and reach agreement have a different meaning They do? What difference is that? Hans51 And I have learned that no can't be used with articles but I have heard of 'It's no go' and' It's a no go' and then articles are used with no and should it be 'There is a no agreement between them' to mean not an agreement?

— GPY

  • Hans51 I have learned that reach an agreement and reach agreement have a different meaning They do?
  • What difference is that?
  • Hans51 And I have learned that no can't be used with articles but I have heard of 'It's no go' and' It's a no go' and then articles are used with no and should it be 'There is a no agreement between them' to mean not an agreement?
  • "It's a no go" (I would probably write it as "It's a no-go") is possible if "no-go" is treated as a noun.
  • This is hardly possible with "no-agreement".
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Hans51I have learned that reach an agreement and reach agreement have a different meaning
They do? What difference is that?
Hans51And I have learned that no can't be used with articles but I have heard of 'It's no go' and' It's a no go' and then articles are used with no and should it be 'There is a no agreement between them' to me
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Thank you so much as usual and I have another question. We can see 'no countable / uncountable nouns' phrase and no is usually not used with articles and then do we tell the meaning in context if countable nouns and uncountable nouns are different in meaning?

And do we treat the word idea in 'I have no idea where to go' as countable or uncountable or just an idiom?
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Hans51Thank you so much as usual and I have another question. We can see 'no countable / uncountable nouns' phrase and no is usually not used with articles and then do we tell the meaning in context if countable nouns and uncountable nouns are different in meaning?
In cases where it makes a difference, you would have to deduce it from the context. For exa
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GPY"I have no idea" is a set expression. However, the noun "idea" is always countable.
Hmm. While "idea" is always countable outside of certain expressions, we do say "much idea" and "some idea" too, in addition to "no idea". I'm not sure whether this truly makes "idea" uncountable in those cases, or whether it should be treated as idiomatic. After all, we can
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