"Any" in my sentence

Rachel Adams · Sep 18, 2020

Hello.

Can I omit "any" in my sentence?

"There were not any medical bills resulted from that accident."
I think I could also say "There were no medical bills resulted from that accident."
My humble opinion: "any" should be used and the second sentence is correct.

Yankee · Sep 18, 2020

Rachel Adams said:
Hello.

Can I omit "any" in my sentence? I wouldn't.

"There were not any medical bills [STRIKE]resulted[/STRIKE] resulting from that accident."
I think I could also say "There were no medical bills [STRIKE]resulted[/STRIKE] resulting from that accident."
My humble opinion: "any" should be used and the second sentence is correct.

I would prefer "weren't" in the first and would be more common unless, for example, emphasis was necessary.

Rover_KE · Sep 18, 2020

Rachel, please post threads of this nature here in Editing & Writing Topics, especially as you already have 11 threads listed on the first page of Ask a Teacher.

tedmc · Sep 18, 2020

I prefer"resulting" to be omitted.

Tarheel · Sep 19, 2020

You could also say:

There were no medical bills as a result of the accident.

emsr2d2 · Sep 21, 2020

You don't need to open with "There were". Here are the simplest ways to say it is:

No medical bills resulted from the accident.
The accident resulted in no medical bills.

Rachel Adams · Sep 21, 2020

emsr2d2 said:
You don't need to open with "There were". Here are the simplest ways to say it is:

No medical bills resulted from the accident.
The accident resulted in no medical bills.

"There were not medical biills resulting from that accident" is wrong without "any" isn't it?

"Any" in my sentence

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