While both of these words are used to show the negative, knowing how and when to use ‘no’ and ‘not’ is an important skill and can make a big difference in your English.

‘No’ is usually used to mean something like “not any” or “not a/an”, and usually refers to a noun. It is commonly used in the following situations:

Answering a yes or no question

E.g. Did you finish your homework? No, I didn’t finish my homework.

Using ‘no’ for nouns without an article

E.g. Sarah has no idea where her phone is.

E.g. This is no time for fighting!

E.g. The book has no information.

Adjectives preceding a noun without an article

E.g. I checked the website, but there are no red dresses.

E.g. There were no late trains today.

E.g. The school has no bad teachers.

Before verbal nouns (ending in -ing)

E.g. No smoking.

E.g. No playing in the street!

E.g. No texting during school!

Not is used to express negation in other ways:

For verbs, to show the opposite of an action

E.g. I do not like this colour.

E.g. He is not cooking dinner tonight.

E.g. You cannot go to Jack’s house.

Also for adverbs which are describing a verb

E.g. I don’t like that actor.

Why not? [Why don’t you like that actor?]

E.g. The car is not very fast.

E.g. Not surprisingly, the hotel was very nice.

Nouns with an article

This also includes nouns with an article, which are preceded by an adjective, and adjectives on their own.

E.g. I liked the pink dress, but not the red one.

E.g. He is not a teacher; he is a student.

E.g. Josh is not friendly.

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در نامه:

• • St — Street — خیابان
  • Rd — Road — جاده
  • c/o — care of — به مراقبت از
  • Mr — Mister — درخواست تجدید نظر به مرد
  • Mrs — Missis — درخواست تجدید نظر به یک زن متاهل
  • Ms — Miss — درخواست تجدید نظر به یک دختر
  • Dr. — Doctor — دکتر
  • PS — آخر
  • PPS — posleposleslovie
  • IMHO — In My Humble Opinion — به نظر من (که اغلب در اینترنت یافت))
  • w/o — without — بدون
  • w/ — with — با
  • DC — District of Columbia — DC
  • WA — Washington — واشنگتن

• در کتاب های علمی، واژه نامه:
  • n. — c uschestvitelnoe
  • v. — فعل
  • adj. — صفت
  • adv. — الظرف
  • prep. — بهانه ای
  • eg — به عنوان مثال،
  • p. — صفحه
  • pp. — صفحه
  • pto — please turn over — perelistnite
  • par — پر.
  • etc — و غیره

• Advertisements (تبلیغات)، announcements (پیام، اطلاعیه ها):
  • arr. — arrive — ورود
  • dep. — depart — خروج
  • Jan. Feb. Apr. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. etc — ماه
  • Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. — روزهای هفته
  • in. — اینچ
  • sec. — ثانیه
  • gm. — گرم
  • cm. — سانتی متر
  • qt — QT
  • cc — سی سی
  • mph — miles per hour — مایل در ساعت
  • kph — kilometres per hour — کیلومتر / ساعت
  • ft. — foot — پا (30 سانتی متر تا 48 میلی متر)
  • lb — libra — ترازو (400 گرم)
  • oz — ounce — در هر اونس (28 گرم)
  • d — denarius — دینار (یک سکه نقره روم)
  • Tel. — telephone — شماره تلفن
  • No. no. — number — تعداد
  • WYSIWYG — what you see is what you get — آنچه می بینید همان چیزی است که شما می توانید
  • POTUS — president of the USA — رئيس جمهور آمریکا
  • VPOTUS — vice-president of the USA — معاون رئیس جمهور آمریکا
  • FLOTUS — first lady of the USA — بانوی اول ایالات متحده آمریکا
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در انگلیسی، برخی سبک های نگارش و کلام قوانین خاص خود را دارند و اغلب این کار به دلیل کوتاه کردن جملات جهت ارتباط بهتر انجام می شود.در آگهی ها و دستورالعمل ها ممکن است فاعل، مفعول ، اشکال مختلف فعل to be، حروف اضافه یا حرف the حذف شود. مثلا:

Cars wanted for crash. Contact Evans, 6 Latton Square. (NOT  cars are wanted for crash . . .)

Single man looking for flat Oxford are. Phone 806127 weekends.

Job needed urgently. Will do anything needed legal. Call 312564.

یادداشت ها

در یادداشت های غیر رسمی ، خاطرات و غیره معمولا این نوع نگارش را می توان دید. مثلا :

Gone to hairdresser. Back 12.30

چنین سبک نگارشی را می توان در کازت پستال ها و حتی نامه های کوتاه غیر رسمی نیز دید. مانند:

Dear Tom,

Watching tennis on TV. A good book. Three meals a day. No washing-up. Clean sheets every day. Everything done for me. Yes, you’ve guessed – in hospital !!

گزارش فوتبال

یکی دیگری از مواردی که احتمالا این نوع ادبیات را می بینید در گزارش های ورزشی مخصوصا فوتبال می باشد. معمولا فعل های کم اهمیت گفته نمیشوند.

Goal kick ….and the score still Spurs 3-, Arsenal 1 …….that’s Pearce….Pearche to Coates…good ball….Sawyer running wide…

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Difference between present continuous and be going to

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Of Which vs Of Whom

1. We can use a non-defining relative clause with "of which" and "of whom" after quantifiers:

All, both, each, many, most, neither, none, part, some...

For Example:

Adam has two brothers. Both of them work as an engineer.
Adam has two brothers, both of whom work as an engineer.

Brad has very nice neighbors. I like all of them very much.
Brad has very nice neighbors, all of whom I like very much.

My mother invited many relatives to my birthday. Only a few of them showed up. 
My mother invited many relatives to my birthday, only a few of whom showed up.

I talked to an old friend of mine last night. Some of her remarks offended me.
I talked to an old friend of mine last night, some of whose remarks offended me.

2. After a number(one,two etc.; the first, the second etc.; half, a third etc.)

I want to be flatmate with my friend Daniel. One of his biggest interests is playing basketball.
1 want to be flatmate with my friend Daniel, one of whose biggest interests is playing basketball.

There are many books in our school library. I'm quite interested in two of them. 
There are many books in our school library, two of which I'm quite interested in.

3. After superlatives (the best, the biggest etc.)

Yesterday, my friend and I caught a lot of fish. The biggest of them was 20 pounds.
Yesterday, my friend and I caught a lot of fish, the biggest of which was 20 pounds.

I met with many beautiful girls at the party last night. The most beautiful of them was Nora.
I met with many beautiful girls at the party last night, the most beautiful of whom was Nora.

Of Which vs Whose

We can use “of which” instead of “whose” for the objects but “of which” is used in non-defining relative clauses.

This is the machine. I described its properties.
This is the machine whose properties I described.
This is the machine, the properties of which I described.

I stayed at a good hotel. It’s facilities are fabulous.
I stayed at a good hotel whose facilities are fabulous.
I stayed at a good hotel the facilities of which are fabulous.

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Difference between ALTHOUGH and THOUGH

The conjunctions ‘although’ and ‘though’ have the same meaning and most of the time can be used interchangeably. ‘Though’ is much more informal than ‘although’, so it is more common in speaking.
They may stand at the beginning of the sentence:

• Although he didn’t introduce himself, I knew he was James Bond.
• Though he didn’t introduce himself, I knew he was James Bond. (informal)

in the middle:

• I knew he was James Bond, although he didn’t introduce himself.
• I knew he was James Bond, though he didn’t introduce himself. (informal)

Tip: you can also use ‘even though’ to sound more formal:

• I knew he was James Bond, even though he didn’t introduce himself.

In informal English, you may use ‘though’ at the end of a sentence:

• James is coming to the party. He hates parties, though.

FORMING THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

The present continuous of any verb is composed of two parts - the present tense of the verb to be + the present participle of the main verb.

(The form of the present participle is: base+ing, e.g. talking, playing, moving, smiling)

THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IS USED:

• To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
  I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth
• To give instructions or directions:
  You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
• To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
  Your exam starts at 09.00
• To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

Be careful! The simple present is not used to express actions happening now.

Prepositions of time

Prepositions of location

Difference between DO and MAKE

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 60 common English collocations

Difference between SAY, TELL, and SPEAK

The verb 'STOP' can be followed by 'the gerund (ING)’ or 'to + infinitive' but the meaning is different. Note:

"He stopped EATING lunch = he did not continue to eat his lunch. He finished eating. 

"He stopped TO EAT lunch" = he stopped what he was doing in order to then have lunch. 

Therefore: 

STOP + VERB ING = to no longer do something. They stopped talking to each other; they don't talk to each other anymore
STOP + infinitive = stop one thing to do another. They stopped to talk to each other; they stopped what they were doing to talk.

Specially vs. Especially 

Specially

 Especially

برای نشان دادن تاکید و پررنگ کردن چیزی که میخوایم راجع بهش صحبت کنیم استفاده می کنیم

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Few, but common, adjectives end in either -ed or -ing:

worried/worrying, interested/interesting, excited/exciting

'-ed' adjectives

Adjectives that end in -ed are used to describe how people feel:

'He was surprised to find that he had been upgraded to first class.'

'I was confused by the findings of the report.'

'She felt tired after working hard all day.'

 '-ing' adjectives

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Vocabulary - commonly misspelled words

Some words in English are more difficult to spell than others.  Here is a few:

misspell (v) – One of the most misspelled words is misspell!  Just add the prefix -mis to the

 word spell, and you’ll have it right!

اسم مرکب+جنس+ملیت+رنگ+شکل+سن+اند ازه+کیفیت+شماره

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

I want to rent the first two stable large old square red neglected Italian brick boarding houses

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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A crossword is a game where you have to fill in empty

spaces with the right words. You've probably already

.played lots of crosswords in your own language

Crosswords are an excellent way to improve your vocabulary. They help you

 remember words that you have already learned, and can even help you learn

 new words.

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How to 'Give your Opinion'

So, in a world of people firing out opinions left, right and center, how do I go about getting mine heard? And here, once again, is a list of useful sentence starters that will immediately convey your attitude, get others to listen, and prepare them for what comes next...

Giving your Opinion

• In my opinion / view...
• 
  
• Generally speaking, I think...
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• Personally, I haven’t the faintest idea about / whether...      (starting with this
• 
  
•  expression may be interpreted as off-hand and could suggest that you have
• 
  
•  nothing else to say!)
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• To my mind...
• 
  
• I’d just like to say...
• 
  
• As far as I’m concerned...
• 
  
• I’m quite convinced that...(only use this expression to express a very strong opinion!)
• 
  
• To be quite honest / frank...
• 
  
• If you ask me...

Finally, I’d just like to say that the negative of ‘I think he does...’ sounds more

 natural as ‘I don’t think he does...’ rather than ‘I think he doesn’t...’ The latter is not

 necessarily wrong, it just sounds less natural, in my opinion.

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Disagreeing Politely

 how do I disagree? The words that I choose could give people the impression that I am rude or condescending or a big-headed know-it-all… hmmm! Now there’s some useful language!

Language of Disagreeing Politely (or ‘How Not To Cause Offence!’)

There are many ways to express disagreement, here are few useful ways to do it.

1. You must be joking!

2. You can’t be serious!

3. Yes, but don’t you think that…?

4. Perhaps, but I can’t help thinking that…

5. I take your point, but that’s not the way I see it.

6. True, but I’m afraid I disagree (with)…

7. I see what you mean but I’m not at all convinced that…

8. There may be some truth in what you say but don’t you think it’s more a question of....

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Question Tags

Question tags are often used in spoken English. A rising intonation is used to show that the question is real, whereas a falling intonation shows that the speaker just wants confirmation from the person being spoken to.

How to use 'Its' or 'It's'

Do you know when we should use its and it’s?

It's

The word it's is always used as a short form of it is.

‘It’s a red umbrella.’

In casual/ informal English it’s is also used for it has.

‘It's got a hole in it.’

Its

Its is a possessive pronoun like her or him. It means ‘belonging to it'.

'The dog used its mouth to open the door.'

Hint

When you become confused, use it is instead of it’s and see if the sentence looks strange. If it looks OK, it probably is.

When you're not sure about its, try using his or hers instead. Again, if it looks grammatically OK, it probably is.

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Less V's Fewer

less hair than I used to have.We use less of something with non-countable nouns: 'less sugar, less hair, less time'.

 You can only have fewer items of a plural/ countable nouns: 'fewer people, fewer cars, fewer shops'.You can have less money, but you can't have less five pound notes. You have fewer five pound notes! So in the supermarket the checkout sign should read: ‘10 items or fewer’and not ‘10 items or less’ 

Try the exercise below using only fewer or less in your answers. Good Luck!

 Key Words Traffic -  (noun) the amount of cars on the road.Pollution - dirty air, water or land. Usually caused by waste. The verb is to pollute. Luggage - (noun) bags or baggage.

Adverbs of Quantity

Countable Nouns

Non-Countable Nouns