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[Tetsu]

Are the following sentences correct?
What's the difference in meaning between the two sentences of each set?

I would greatly appreciate your kindness if both an American teacher who lived on the West Coast for a long time and knows the West Coast English well and a British teacher would give me replies.


S11: There is not parking here.
S12: There is no parking here.

S21: There is not running in the hall.
S22: There is no running in the hall.

S31: There is not avoiding the loss.
S32: There is no avoiding the loss.

S41: There is not getting around the job.
S42: There is no getting around the job.

Thank you.
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Tetsu

[redset]

No for all of them - you're using it as an emphatic form of 'not any'. I think you're technically negating noun phrases, in which case you use a determiner (no, any etc.) and not just not.

[Tetsu]

Hello redset

Thanks a lot for your kind help.
My big question is solved.
Thanks!
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Tetsu

[Tetsu]

I would greatly appreciate your kindness if an American teacher who lived on the West Coast for a long time and knows the West Coast English well give me a reply.
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Tetsu

[CP]

You would not hear a native speaker say any of the "not" sentences, only the "no" sentences.
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[Tetsu]

Hello CP

Thanks a lot for your kind help.
I could get a sure road.
Thanks!
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Tetsu