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No or not?
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Do you want to come to my house or not?
What do we use in these kinds of sentences - "no" or "not" at the end? I think it is always "not". Am I correct?
Do you want to do something or not (do something)?
The "or not" is optional.
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You're right, tufguy — it should be 'not'.
However, as in the nursery rhyme 'A frog he would a-wooing go', you'll sometimes see 'or no' when the writer needs to resort to poetic licence.
'A frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigho, says Rowley!
Whether his mother would let him or no.'
('not' doesn't rhyme with 'go'.)
However, as in the nursery rhyme 'A frog he would a-wooing go', you'll sometimes see 'or no' when the writer needs to resort to poetic licence.
'A frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigho, says Rowley!
Whether his mother would let him or no.'
('not' doesn't rhyme with 'go'.)
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