"no one" "not one"

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What is the difference between "no one" and "not one"?
 
That depends. May I see the sentences with those phrases?
 
Tarheel said:
That depends. May I see the sentences with those phrases?
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can you tell differences in general?

They have a wonderful time and luckily no one was injured.

They have a wonderful time and luckily not one was injured.

They have a wonderful time and luckily none was injured.
 
Tara2 said:
Can you tell the differences in general?

They had a wonderful time, and luckily no one was injured.

They had a wonderful time and luckily not one was injured.

They had a wonderful time and luckily none was injured.
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Two things. I would use "were" in the last sentence. (Do you know why?) Also, were they doing something dangerous?

Without additional information I have no reason to make any distinction between them.
 
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Write it as one word like this: no-one

The correct sentence is:

Luckily, no-one was injured.

In this sentence, no-one means nobody.

The other words not one and none do not have this meaning so they are incorrect in your sentences.
 
Tarheel said:
Two things. I would use "were" in the last sentence. (Do you know why?) Also, were they doing something dangerous?

Without additional information I have no reason to make any distinction between them.
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It comes from the English Grammar Today. There isn't any more.
 
Piscean said:
That does rather depend on context. If the previous sentence were Twelve dogs were entered for the race, then not one and none would be more appropriate than nobody
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But it's about people.
 
Tdol said:
Without more context, only no one works for me if it is about people.
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Could you please explain why only "no one" works if it's about people?
 
'No one' means 'no person', so it can't be used for animals. [click]
 
Tara2 said:
Could you please explain why only "no one" works if it's about people?
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You could get the others to work with further context. This is a problem of looking at standalone sentences without context.
 
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EDIT: and here.
 
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