NO vs NOT ANY vs NONE - English in a Minute

Hi, I’m Sam from BBC Learning English,

and today we’re looking at the difference between

no, not any and none.

Let's have a look.

Imagine you ask me this question:

Do you have any change?

I have zero change,

and I can say this in three different ways:

Sorry, I have no change.

– where we use the verb have with no

followed by a noun.

Sorry, I don’t have any change.

– where we use the negative don’t

followed by the verb followed by any

followed by the noun.

Or, I can say:

Sorry, none at all

– where we use none without a verb or a noun,

so it's a short answer.

So now you shouldn’t have any problems with this!