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"Not" or "no" ? I want some help on the following question: The company has guaranteed that ___ one of its employees will lose his/her job due to the merger. Is it "not" or "no" for the blank? May anyone help ?
Dec 18, 2014 3:37 AM
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The answer is "not". "The company has guaranteed that not one of its employees will lose his/her job due to the merger." This means "absolutely no-one". If you use "no", then you need to change the sentence slightly: "The company has guaranteed that none of its employees will lose..." "The company has guaranteed that no-one will lose..." (Notice how much I've had to change to make "no-one" fit. Keeping "of its employees" is not correct, but now we have an unclear sentence.)
December 18, 2014
Peachey is spot on.
December 18, 2014
December 18, 2014
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