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- No, not, and non - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 Consequently there are lots of exceptions to the general rules below Non- is not a word, but a part of another word, usually a descriptive adjective:
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
Logically, then, "non-dead" might mean something like "not having died" (true of rocks and living people), and "undead" might mean "living " But word constructions don't always make sense "Non-dead" isn't a word and "undead" means non-living and supernaturally animated Go figure
- Using non- to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language Usage . . .
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 publishers are much more apt to hyphenate all non-compounds no matter the following latter, so non-believer and non-native Just don’t hyphenate nonchalant :)
- hyphenation - Is the use of a hyphen between non and an adjective . . .
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 rules differ, and the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature
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- is it a word - unintuitive vs nonintuitive vscounter-intuitive . . .
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 the non-ramified or simple theory of types has attracted much subsequent work, all type theory suffers from a problem of unintuitive duplication
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