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Anita
Which sentence would you rather use?
I don’t have a candle.
I have no candle.
Just met a guy who claims that the second option is way more commonly used and is more convenient than the first one. Not sure what to think 🤔
2025年11月1日 21:09
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Personally, I'd say 'I haven't got a candle' but, of those two, I'd say 'I don't have a candle'.
2025年11月2日 14:28
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"I don't have a candle" is the option you want to use.
2025年11月2日 04:15
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I don't have a candle.
2025年11月2日 02:54
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I agree with everyone's answers below. I'd use "I don’t have a candle."
However, I might use the second option, "I have no candle," if someone kept asking me for a candle and I didn't have one. I would use it for emphasis. "I have no..." is often used for that purpose. I don't mean that we only use it for emphasis, but it's just how I express things myself as a native speaker of American English.
2025年11月6日 02:40
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Modern grammar books, such as Practical English Usage by Swan (3rd ed. 1995), give "have not" as older British usage and "don't have" as modern British and American usage (see Swan, section 237 : have (4), subsection 3 : questions and negatives, page 207).
Google n-grams shows that "I haven't/I have no" was dominant in print for the last two hundred years, but that currently "I don't" has equal usage.
I am North American. "I don't have" is nearly universal. I have had British friends and coworkers who used "I have no."
2025年11月2日 15:23
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