Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative. British …

Oct 1, 2015 · Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives. …

May 20, 2018 · "Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something …

Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin. Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen. British …

Jul 30, 2013 · It depends on the position of the adjective: You have to say "this is a non-significant variable," but you can say "this variable is not significant" or "... non-significant". (There may …

Jan 12, 2018 · Or if you want to be even more clear (and are OK with something longer), non-English-language films. Both are used and mean the same thing (films not in the English …

Then the single-statement version was coined. But now, most people recognise (and, I'd say, use) the slightly longer expression ... which is now equally 'a proverb'. Not the original, but hardly …

May 4, 2022 · Similar unintuitive results are obtained when the sentences stand in non-formal logical relations. B. Hale et al.; A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (2017) Although …

Non-conclusive does have some specialized usage as I mentioned. There is a Non-conclusive verb in the progressive tenses. The term was most likely first used by A.S Hornby in his …

Jul 18, 2018 · That is a good point -- 'not' is an adverb, but when it is morphed onto 'one' in 'none' it no longer affects the verb. You can either choose its plurality to be ambiguous "there is/are …