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eagleflych
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 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: There's not an onion? |
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Hi everybody:
I've seen the negative sentence below in a book and I've not understood it's meaning. Please help me.
"There's not an onion in the house." 
Does it mean "The number of onions in the house is zero" or "The number of onions in the house is not one and may be two, three, etc"?
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Lorikeet
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| I think it means, "There are no onions in the house." (Not even one.) |
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openenglish
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Yes, it definitely means that there are absolutely no onions in the house at all.
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