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with a negative verb.
Nobody is allowed to wear shoes in the mosque.
(NOT ‘Everyone isn’t’)
None of the children are at school today.
Compare: ‘All the children aren’t at school today.’ This means that some of the children are at school today, but not
all of them.
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When a sentence begins with
never, hardly, seldom, rarely, scarcely, nowhere, no sooner, not only, only
when, by no means, under no circumstances etc,
the subject and auxiliary verb change places.
No sooner had we arrived than it began to rain.
Under no circumstances should you wait any longer.
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When there is no auxiliary verb, use
do:
Only then did I realize that I was completely alone.
Rarely do you meet such polite children nowadays.
notice
1
I wrote him a notice saying that the package had arrived.
I wrote him a note saying that the package had arrived.
notice
= a short written statement giving information or directions, usually found in a public place:
‘There was a notice on the wall saying "Private property. No parking."
note
= a short informal letter or written message from one person to another: ‘Just a quick note to
say that Helen had a baby boy yesterday.’
2
It
was so crowded that at first I didn’t take any notice of him.
It was so crowded that at first I didn’t see/notice him.
take notice of
= pay attention to: ‘Nobody ever takes any notice of what I say.’
notice
= become aware of; see: ‘I didn’t suspect anything until I noticed that my chequebook was
missing.’
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