No vs Not - Learn 4 major differences - Free English speaking Lessons online

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This basic English lesson teaches you the difference between the two most commonly used negative expressions ‘no’ and ‘not’. Both these expressions are used to make a negative sentence, but there is a difference in their usage. Improve your English speaking with free English lesson online from Let’s Talk English speaking Institute.
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Using No:
1. For an answer to a closed-ended question (yes/no)
Example: Are you going out? Answer: No.
2. Precedes a noun without an article
Example: The company had no rivals. (rival is a noun without an article before it)
3. It cannot make a verb negative
Example: I do no have a pen. ( this is incorrect)
Example: I am no going out. (it is incorrect)
4. It cannot be used before a possessive adjective
Example: These are no my books. (use ‘not’)
Using Not:
1. It cannot be used to an answer to a closed-ended question. (yes/no)
Example: Are you going out? Answer: Not (this is incorrect. Use ‘no’)
2. Precedes a noun with an article
Example: The virus is not the cause of the disease.
3. It can make a verb negative
Example: I do not have a pen. I am not going out.
4. It is used before a possessive adjective.
Example: These are not my socks.
Let’s take a look at how we can use ‘no’ and ‘not’ in similar sentences.
Example: I have got no money
Example: I have not got any money.
Both the above sentences mean the same.