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<div style="font-size:300%;"> Any and no: adverbs</div> | <div style="font-size:300%;"> Any and no: adverbs</div> | ||
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==Any and no with comparatives== | ==Any and no with comparatives== | ||
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Any can modify comparatives. This happens mostly in questions and negative sentences, and after if. | Any can modify comparatives. This happens mostly in questions and negative sentences, and after if. | ||
Can you go any faster? | '''Examples:''' | ||
*Can you go any faster? | |||
*You don’t look any older than your daughter. (= You don’t look at all older . . .) | |||
*If l were any younger, I ’d fall in love with you. | |||
'''"No" can also be used in this way (but not some).''' | '''"No" can also be used in this way (but not some).''' | ||
I ’m afraid the weather's no better than yesterday. | '''Example:''' | ||
*I ’m afraid the weather's no better than yesterday. | |||
==any/no different== | ==any/no different== | ||
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We can also use any and no with different. | We can also use any and no with different. | ||
'''Examples:''' | |||
‘Is Jack any better?’ ‘No different. Still very ill.’ | *This school isn’t any different from the last one. | ||
*‘Is Jack any better?’ ‘No different. Still very ill.’ | |||
==3. any/no good; any/no use== | ==3. any/no good; any/no use== | ||
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Note the expressions any good/use and no good/use. | Note the expressions any good/use and no good/use. | ||
Was the film any good? | '''Examples:''' | ||
*Was the film any good? | |||
This car is no use. It keeps stopping. | *This car is no use. It keeps stopping. | ||
Revision as of 13:04, 11 May 2020
Any and no: adverbs
Any and no with comparatives
Any can modify comparatives. This happens mostly in questions and negative sentences, and after if.
Examples:
- Can you go any faster?
- You don’t look any older than your daughter. (= You don’t look at all older . . .)
- If l were any younger, I ’d fall in love with you.
"No" can also be used in this way (but not some).
Example:
- I ’m afraid the weather's no better than yesterday.
any/no different
We can also use any and no with different.
Examples:
- This school isn’t any different from the last one.
- ‘Is Jack any better?’ ‘No different. Still very ill.’
3. any/no good; any/no use
Note the expressions any good/use and no good/use.
Examples:
- Was the film any good?
- This car is no use. It keeps stopping.