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There was no/not a/not any

There was no/not a/not any

What is the difference between there was no, there was not a and there was not any?

  • Yesterday I visited a very undevelopped area in my tour of Africa. I rented a room in a hotel there. The hotel lacked basic facilites. There was no television set/ not a television set/ not any television set in the room.

  • To negate the sentence "there are some televison sets in The US." We can say either "There are not any/no television sets in The US."

But To negate the sentence "there is a television set in my room.", is there only one way? Is there another way to say "there is no television in my room."

Can any teacher or expert please answer this?



Top Answer/Comment:
  • There is or was no television set in my room.
  • There isn't or wasn't a television set in my room.

any is for plurals or uncountable nouns:

  • There wasn't any snow on the ground.
  • There isn't any coffee in the pot.
  • There aren't any television sets in the building.
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