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Grape mango 748 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

There isn't one / There is not one.

Hey everyone, I've thought about this before and couldn't figure it out myself. Searching online also didn't really provide me with an answer I was looking for.

(Could just be that I know very little about grammatical terms and thus formulating my question incorrectly.)


Anyway, my question is regarding the following phrase.

A: because there isn't one.

B: because there is not one.


To me, the first one is fine, but the second one just sounds weird. I have asked people similar questions before and haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Usually I'd replace the second sentence with. "because there is no document" or something along those lines. But is sentence B a grammatically correct sentence? I want to say it is, but I'm not sure.

  

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. my question is regarding the following phrase. A: because there isn't one.

— Clive

  • .
  • my question is regarding the following phrase.
  • A: because there isn't one.
  • B: because there is not one.
  • Consider this little dialogue.
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. . . my question is regarding the following phrase.

A: because there isn't one.

B: because there is not one.

Consider this little dialogue.

Tom: I'd like 100 widgets.

Sam: Sorry, there are none in stock.

Tom: OK, just give me 50.

Sam: Sorry, we don't have 50.

Tom: OK, I''ll just take 5.

Sam: I alread

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grape mango 748B a grammatically correct sentence?

It is a grammatically correct clause.

You cannot have one, because there isn't one in the bin. The bin is empty. We are out of stock.
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