NO AND NOT

To make negative verb forms, we put not or n't structure To make negative verb forms, we put not or n't after an auxiliary verb or be. If there is no other auxiliary, we use do. In standard English, we dont normally use not or do with negative

words like never, hardly, nothing. (But this is common in many dialects.)

📍The Minister has not made a decision. 

📍She couldn't swim

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structures with not:

not We use not to make a word, expression or clause negative.

Not surprisingIy, she failed her driving test.(No surprisingIy ❌)

I've worked in Scotland, but not in Ireland (No in Ireland❌)

Not can refer to dillerent parts of a sentence. However, in a clause with a verb, not normally goes

with the verb, whatever the exact meaning.

✔Peter didn't study art at Cambridge. 

❌not Peter studied...

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🔖meaning of No :

We use no with a noun or -ing form to mean 'not any' or 'not a/an'.

📍No pilots went on strike. (='There weren't any pilots on strikei)

📍We've got no plans for the holiday. (= '... not any plans ...')