How to use NO & NOT in English

5/5

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I am the first one :)

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SD Teen

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cristal99

realy its great lesson,,,BTW crista we both from indonesia…we love ENGVID…

fahri

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cristal99

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fahri

Thanks……………….
It’s very good way for development.

prashant

its is really good teach

angeligue

Thank you james

Bah

hi thanks

sarah1392

We can’t find the proper words 2 thank u

kotoz

Mr. James you are a wonderful teacher only you speak a little big fast.I love your personality when you explain your classes.No and not is confuse but now make sense thank you very much.

Milagros

Same with me. But for you mr. Milagros, you can look the text on his white board. That’s the key word.

Dodi

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albertsioson

Hi James. Could you give us some lessons about idioms and slangs?

REY

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aftab khan

Thank you Mr. James for simple and clear explanation.

khalidalharbi

mr james , you a funny teacher who Atract his student , thank yuo a teacher

adam

Very helpful. Surprising how much English grammar is “intuitively known” by a native speaker.

Anon

hi .james . wonderful teacher

ahmed

Very well I learned who use no/not

wallace

Great !

rafarebelo

im very impressive with your lesson, im a beginer to english! you have your own individual way of teaching, i love it…..

Quyen

you are right…hes unique..original…a great way of teaching…great!!!!!

paula

Dear James,
Thanks a lot for your funny lesson. what I would like to know on this theme: You said that we do not use “not” before an adjective and noun combination. But what if I write like this” John is not a lazy teacher”? Here the adjective “lazy” & noun “teacher” aren’t in a combination form? My second question, said “no/not” aren’t go together in one clause. But look at the following dialog. Fre you crazy

Abe

if it possible to let me answer you this question “John is not lazy” I think that mr.James said that after verbs we have to use “not” and in your sentence the verb is”is” so simply we use “not” . so it would be a good idea for you to watch the lesson again in order to understand it more and more.

leelian

There is an article before the adjective-noun combination, so you have to use not.
Look at the rules again, it is explained.
But your question was good for me to understand the subject better.

petzi

correction for my second question. Fatma,y are you crazy? No, am not a crazy. would u explain me on these issue? thank you so much for your kind help

Abe

it is really helpful to me. thank you very much our kindness to us.

thinley

thank you for your classes. I want to take a TOEFL exam.Can you help me,please.

isabel

Hi James,
Good lesson,
Shall I take like this, whenever we use DO, DID, DOES we should use NOT, is it right or not?

navin

hi great

sayf

thank you sir.can i join you on face book

sidd

this a good sit for me and thanks a lot for open this sit and do the work on this and this a very very good operchunity

usman

i would be thankful if any one of you refer me a good spoken English book.
thank in advance.

setlite

Mr.James
What is the difference between in and under as a proposition with examples please
Thank you

Have a nice day

meema

how to download lesson?

touy

It is not possible at this time. YouTube doesn’t allow it.

engVid

Very useful explanation:)
I love english:)

paulaa

thank you a lot my funy teacher

moflehi

i think mr.james is very good in english doing a very good job but the only thing i felt he has learnt by his own & he is used to that language but if a person whose mothertongue is not english will find it very difficult to learn so i think some more study on how a person will quickly grasp the technique of using english should be done.

shweta

2/5 huhuhu

anhphiga

Thank you a lot

nagynagycomposer

thanks
but I can’t see the quiz

Ahmed Elkot

thanks

ahmedelkot

where is the quiz I can’t see it

ahmedelkot

Thanks, teacher good lesson

astgogo22

Yeah,yeah…
I have 5/5 correct answer for that quizs.I like this and i like this website very much.
Thanks for funny teacher! James.

chinh_ltv

I teach ESL and the simple past vs. present perfect was kind of difficult for my students to understand I’ll show your class cause i think you explain it better….TAHNK YOU!!

The teacher

Thank you James for the lesson No/Not I always getconfuse but now I understand better.

Now, could you please explain when use I or I’m
THANK YOU!

ermindapichardo6

thanks for all

samo

thanx
engvid

jassi

hi…..jassi , if you don’t mind we can have a conversation to improve our speaking skill. i like to speak with indian subcontinent people bcz of easy to understand. wht do u think?

thusan

thanks alot

RORO

now i understand

juniorjj

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

aboyoussef

i like syl and me

aboyoussef

Thank you for lesson

mouza

Thank a lot.your lession very good.it’s help me practice to listen and speak english.

jenny

how can i download this

noerul

You can’t!

engVid

thank you james :)

meryeme

hey i have been watching your videos…really funny and very very good ones..i’ve learned a lot with u…thanksssss

paula

Excellent explanation!
Hugs from brazil!

Rodrigo

Thanks James. I am a brazilian student and I am beginner! Your lesson is easy and I really appreciate because I could understand almost all explanation. You teach with good examples and fun! Thanks!

J.u.l.i.a.n.a

nice

Arani

I do not have problems with the speed of your lecture ,but Why are you moving around all the time?

grubert10

Good Afternoon for all!
Mr. James and Mr E and Sil are pretty good!
Mr James, could you speak a little bit slow? Sometimes you speak very fast. You are incredible teacher. I hope one day a became like you. Thank you.

Carlos From Brazil

oops!james your lessons are just amazing!!!!!!!!111

arjunsjohn

Excelent It’s so clear, and you have a great technique to teach

upenapinto

hahaha good teacher

hernan1

Hello James. I enjoyed the lesson.
Can you explain the difference between buy and purchase? I’ll appreciate it.

jasalgado66

Hello James,
my name is Daniel and I’m studying political science and internacial relations, I found your site through youtube and I mean that in 30 years i have, you are the best English teacher I’ve seen. Thank you and god bless you

dfernandes

thanks alot you are the best

sara

greaty oh!

solchoi9

thanks lot teachers for everything

islem

thanks!

andresito99

Hello James,
Thanks for awesome lecture and made your mind clear ……. I have a question, u said in lecture that use NO with the combination of adj and noun.So is it right way to use………. They are not good people…………..Please reply soon

Arshad Mehmood

oh bad! sir James do not reply to your question… but i think your sentence is correct.

totong

But there was the combination of adj and noun…………………

Arshad Mehmood

yap…but good only modifies people and it is positive… but, it might be wrong if you use bad as modifier to people… then you use not bcoz it becomes double negative… like, “they are not bad people” bcoz it means they are quit good people.

totong

Sorry James….. Made our minds clear instead of your mind………. Sorryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Arshad Mehmood

thank you very much sir and maam to add more knowledge about english……..

Bench

thank you mr james

king12

thanks a lot your style is amazing but you speak quite fast to be understood for beginner students.

Shaimaa

Thanks a lot

boudjemaa

This is the good lesson,but I wonder James said that ” No don’t use with much/any/many/enough” but he give example for yes/no question is “no, I don’t like any cake” is it different?

maingoc

yes, bcoz what i understood is the “no” from that sentence is a dependent clause from the independent clause I don’t like any cake. what sir James used is “not” from the word “don’t” means do not. you can write that sentence in this way “No! I do not like any cake.”.

totong

ahhh! now i can understand, thank you very much totong. ^_^

maingoc

your welcome,,,, I’m glad to help, because even me I need help also to improve my English. So, I hope that we help each other to improve our English…. I’m glad to see you here in EngVid.com….

totong

Nice to meet you, this is my nick in yahoo “huongtu_y4” if you want we can chat together to improve speaking skill. and help each other to improve our English.

maingoc

thanks, my account also is vinz_2o@yahoo.com… see you there…

totong

Thank you very much for this lesson .I do not think there is difference between no and not

abthamer

ha!ha!ha!ha! I got the quiz! Anyway, your video help to to answer my assignment…Thanks….

totong

ha!ha!ha!ha! I got the quiz! Anyway, your video help me to answer my assignment…Thanks….

totong

thank you for this very funny and useful lesson

Kursat

thanks

Kent

thank you so much for this lesson

godprincess1022

can you also say,” you have no reason for being late?” instead of had.

gwapo

yeah,finally i got a perfect score to ur lessons james.

thanks.

joza

this website is awsome .. I’ve learned so many things here .. thank you so much!

ikhodam

sometimes I confused “no” and “not”,
now I became to know about this.
thanks a lot

joy

Thank you I have 4 answers good i am happy

Hnan

james is acting like a kid

abass

your so funny james and helpful thankyou

abass

Good Job!

Louie

thx,, you are funny teacher james :D

dydy

thank you

salsabeel

Thanks so much ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

iNGRiD

Many thanks !!!

genadi07

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harisomer

i need some informatoin a bout ielts writing and listening parts

harisomer ahmar

^^, good job guy ! it;s very funny ^^. thank you !

pavel108

thanks bro

mr waltz

if we talking about nor what wolud you say ?

taimoor

v. nice

Ahmad Naqvi

so u really good teacher.

angeligue

you are really good teacher james…I got perfect score..Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

iamjaja

This lesson was very useful to me. Thank you! I´m glad because I understood almost everything you said!You usually talk too fast! But you´re really good!

Sally S

I really like mr.E and Syl. James, you made my day. Thank you. No, really! You are the best!

mr.E and Syl

Thank you mr.James =)

Hanody

great lesson mr.james thank you a lot

hanody

thanks a lot

Genilson

thank u funny lesson…. study with fun and enjoy urself… i have learned more and more thanks

hammad99101

I’m afraid quiz is broken

triceps

You’ll need to use a modern browser like Chrome, Opera, Safari, or Firefox 4+.

engVid

thanks, James. You are very humourous. I love your lessons. Regarding this lesson, I have a question. Why to say ” no good” instead of “not good”?

Huizhuo

5 out of 5)))
I think will be better if you give much more questions for our practice))Thanks anyway))

annytka

thanks sir

sany

Thank you so much. You are a wonderful teacher. ^^

Diane

tnx.

fatiima

I like this lesson. So i urdenstand what he tought.

Leandro

in same time,
1.learn to listen little fast talking
2.no/not

thank you very much.

innsmouth

can you talk slowly please?

lina

thanks forall techar

patrws

Thank you very much ^_^

altamimi24

Thanks James! You are my favorite teacher!

oncleshu

Mr. James thank you very much

Azat

Mr. James you are a wonderful teacher only you speak a little big fast.I love your personality when you explain your classes.No and not is confuse but now make sense thank you very much.

Hello, James how are you?
I really appreciate your teaching system

wini

it was too fast in several moments

anon

Thanks, James

tamhien

thank you very much

ĐaiƯng

Thanks, James
No i’ll hang around,NOT…HEHE

fargokate

Very useful lesson.Thank you very much.

mauritano

Is it correct to say : I play no challenging sports?

jeffer123

thanks Mr.james ..

anns07

very interest lesson , and i have no other word except thanks .. ( is that true ) Mr. James??

anns07

THANK A LOT

elwahchhh

I have had this confusion for long time, thanks to Mr James I have no doubt about. I will follow the tutorials on the website they are extremaly useful.

Rose

Hello James, I’d like to know wich of these sentences is better:
-I do not have money
-I have no money
Both seem corret to me.

angel

very nice.

Hasan

Thank you a lot!

Dammi

I am very happy because my score was 5/5. The teacher is great.
Thanks.

Gladys

This is a great website and I like James’s lessons very much

nero

awesome……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

surahman

Very interesting lesson. thanks a lot!

jairoenrique

James !

Thanks for your teaching

mmasoe

James !

Thanks !

mmasoe

It was perfect.

kevin

Thank you very much.

fredfrank

thank you so much sir .. ^_^

mouna

Thank you sir

nusiba

Thanks teacher!.. from Chile! :)

Oscar

thanks for teaching me..^^

nutricula

I was asked this question, but I didn’t know how to answer. Like you said, even native speakers they don’t even give me a clear answer. Luckily, I caught your lesson. Thank you so much.

Quynh Le

That´s very nice explanation!! thank you!

Azulclarito

5/5 great lesson,thanks.

rabbani

Open O sesame !

Atef

Thanks, Mr. James. It’s really interesting

Thuy

you’re really funny

ngobao93

excellent sir james , i have impressed very much from you, i had been searching this topic on internet from many days but i didn’t find any thing in detail but at last i got it thank you MR james

whazir ahmed

as you have told us that for any/many/enough/much we have to use not but what about “MORE”

msindian420

mr. james tell me please “there is no cat in a room” or “there is not a cat in a room” both sentences have same meaning or not

sadaqat manzoor

“this is not a chair” and “this is no chair” have same meaning
because you said “not” is used before noun with article

sakhee

“this is not a chair” and “this is no chair” have same meaning???????
because you said “not” is used before noun with article

sakhee

hi…sakhee…… i also have the same problem dude…….

thusan

You are an interesting person, James, and the way you teach is great!!!

Gohar from Armenia

Hi James, thanks a lot! i have a question, please could you make a lesson about the Phrasal Verb?

dommy

5/5 got it wellllll… Thanksss a lott

zoze

Thank’s was a very interesting class I learn some new.

Juancho

ahhh!! now i understand it ?!? please could u make a lesson about SVC pattern and contextual clues?!?

thanks alot again mr. James

Thanks a lot Mr.James :D

miniplayground

So interesting this lesson, a lot of thanks.

Lara

Thank you very much.

Clemencia

Rule #8. http://www.EngVid.com
Most valuable I learn this time.

Mit

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jimmysaenz90

I love it… it helped me so much…. thanks a million…

Clau

Thank you Mr. James

dianayaneth02

i did my best wow i got first…

amjad1

sir you are really very funny. i like you sir

amjad1

The instructor seems to be very comfortable during the class. The lesson and the rules are easy to retain. The visual supports used to convey various rules to the learners are very relevant to me. As an English learner, this is a class could attend without hesitation.

Herve Kamagne

great teacher *_*

haya KSA

i could not use my email, beacuuse it have some problem,

moomina

I enjoyed so much the lesson of James on the difference between No and Not.

By the way, would you recommend me a video course on British English phonetics for sale.

Thank you very much.

Angelino

Angelino Junior do Carmo

i wanna know the differences between them today but i could not get the lesson and i dont know why please help me i really need it it is a matter of life or death :(

tina

ask your mama no is a right answer :( jajjaa

thanks for your time teacher

elkrespo

this is not the point which i wanted i just want the deference between : I do not have idea and I have no
idea

aiman97

hi….james sir……
thanks a lot sir….if you don’t mind,could you explain the different of ” there are no people in the school, there are not people in the school”? sir i have asked this question with number of people but i could not have the meaningful answer therefor i’m looking forward to your answer james………..plz…..plz………reply to my question…………

thusan

James, maybe you could enrich this lesson by explaining how we should use ‘none’ properly, huh? thanks in advance ;) PS> I love your lesson with the Bale’s outburst on the set of “Terminator”, btw, you should do the same on the (bad) language from “Full Metal Jacket”…

ronniepl

It was really a useful lesson like no anybody can do it. Thank you teacher you are not only a good teacher but and a amazing guy . Greetings from Athens.

pafsilipoclub

James much respect to you! I have bin through many English classes, but after 10 min. I could not keep my attention on the lesson….with one word…BORING. You got special gift of how to make the students entertain the whole time and still come back for more :-). As I started to teach English now in Europe I would greatly appreciate some of your teaching tips. Perhaps you can start the “learning teaching” classes yehhhhh! :-)

marie78

5/5 thanks for the lesson.

mimito2013

thnxxxxx alot…. :)

isis1

5/5 thanks james

miranda28

5/5 It’s realy good !

Mr.Maxer

thank you sir……..

tharindudoo

I liked it very much, but I think that your examples about using not before articles preceding nouns and before “many/any/enough” are all examples of the third rule: using “not” to form a negative sentence, to make verbs negatives: “It IS NOT a house”, “I DO NOT HAVE enough time”. I don’t think that the use of NOT here has any relation with the article or the word “enough”. And regarding “enough/many/any”, for me, they are all ADVERBS and not ADJECTIVES…

lorenabrandizzi

5 correct out 5
Thank you,James.

Math catcher

I got ur points very well and I got 100 % IN THE QUIZ…Thanks! Mr. James

Serwan

Thanks Mr. James, your lesson was funny, because of your personality, I hope learn more with yours classes, thanks again from Argentina.

josemiguel1060

Thanks Mr. JAmes. Excellent.

Sue.Sutten

5/5 thanks…

ChristinaGreece

Hi James,
thanks a lot for your exellent lesson
take care

cep62

Thanks James, your way of making students understand is very good. I like it. Thanks again :)

pawanranar

“Long time no see” is really used by native speakers? it sounds very strange to me. If I meet a friend who I haven’t seen for a long time, how should I say?

yohanis5605

How to know when not to use the auxiliary verb to form a negative sentence?

For instance:

I prefer people don’t call me at night”
I prefer people not to call me at night”

“This made him not to change his mind”
“This made him doesn’t change his mind”

Thanks loads!

Silpedra

Hi James,

Could you teach us about negative infinitive?
Thanks.

kaezer

Hi James what is the difference between, I have no money and I don t have money could you explain tha to me ? please !

pitote

Hi James, you have very interesting teaching style. i love it.

rizkhan82

Thank you for the wonderful lesson.

Iamhere.

Thank you for giving a lesson

suresh chintala

WoW !!! I got 5 point.Thx james

Kedter

No bad, I do not suprise with your way to teach excellent work. Thank you.

Kostas690

I do not like cake. This is my sentence. Can I put an article before ‘cake’?

Lodivikus

Excellent!!!

Maribelle

I asked my mother how many rules there were. She had no answer.

Lisafromitaly

James, could you tell me if these sentences are
correct? It’s about the NOT thing.

Preceeds a noun that has an article:
1) He wants a pen, not a pencil.

With many, any and so on…

2)He brought some cokes, NOT many.

Negatives: Can it be in the contracted form?

She isn’t patient at all.

Please, tell me if it’s okay or NOT okay! Geez!

Sonia1234

Please, James, could you write me something about
my sentences with NOT?

I’d like to know if they are correct.

Ah! I was doing some thinking and I remembered
the famous Shakespearean ” To be or NOT to be”.

So, before infinitives with to we use NOT.

See? I’d like to NOT be boring, but once again
could you say something about my sentences???

Sonia1234

Thank U for giving a lesson.

Mahesh Magar

Oh!Oh!I think I made a huge mistake. I wrote:
“I’d like to NOT be boring” but I think it’s
totally wrong. Should it be:
“I’d like NOT to be boring”.

Now, I really don’t know how to say this using
the NOT thing. I think I have to use another
example. I need to put on my thinking hat.

James, will you ever correct my sentences?

Thanks in advance.

Sonia1234

one feature of your lessons is – i have always burning my toasts

koktov

Thank you!

Nao Tsuboya

Hi James, thanks for this good lesson.

Andahazy

thank you ……… mr. james

akm.safras

Thanks for this great lesson.

VictorMario

There are no good teachers in Srilanka to teach correct English.so thanks a lot…….

saranga

Hi James I’m Sarah,
Can you Please do a vocabulary lesson about politics, vote, rights and all that Stuff.
Thanks on d’avance (Merci d’avance).

Sunsarah

I don’t believe in grammar at all ! (As Aj Hoge Says too)
grammar just makes you confused and because of that your english get worse!!!
If you want to speak fluently, you don’t have time to think about grammar at all!
The words must come out automatically without thinking like when you ride a bicycle without thinking how to ride.
And like a native illiterate person that can speak very well but obviously he/she does not know any (i mean any) grammar!

Mohsen Barati

Thanks good lesson

Jackelinebsanchez1

Is confuse no and not for me but I understand the lesson. Thanks james.

recunha

My heartfelt request is please change the figure of Mr.E That’s disgusting to see all the times give nice fig for Mr.E..

Sivakumar

What about none,nor, non

luciomc85

Great way to explain it!!
Thanks!

AnnaAriel

I did not know these rules!Thank you very much!

pl.Natalia

James
Thank you for the lesson.

remcruz

Thanks you so much.

Marta Lopez

I’ve got 5 correct out of 5 :D
Thank you!

Desita

I had 5/5.Thank you mr James

Minhchien7906

Thanks for the lecture.

ashishzaware@gmail.com

An easy lesson but we shouldn’t forget it though sometimes we may have doubts about it, anyway it was an interesting lesson. Thanks a lot, teacher James Greer from Engvid.

angardiobel

Hi everbody
I got a question. It’s said that ‘Not’ cannot be used before a noun unless there is an adjective before it but why has one of the magazines i’ve seen written this sentence’Not heroes,but monsters’ despite the fact that hero is a noun!!