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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:
- 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
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
"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 (rather than the opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-)
- Use of the prefix non- on compound words [duplicate]
Adding non-in front of a compound adjective can make it ambiguous; I would recommend only doing it if it's clearly non-ambiguous (like the first examples below) There are some compound adjectives that sound perfectly fine if you add non-in front of them: non-English-speaking customers, non-nuclear-powered submarines
- american english - Non in front of hyphenated adjective - English . . .
non-English-speaking countries not-to-be-forgotten moments Since your usage is of the latter form (a normally hyphenated element in front of a hyphenated compound adjective), the use of multiple hyphens is therefore recommended: He was the only non-red-haired person in his entire family
- 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
- Whats a word to describe something that is non-English?
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 language) "Non-English films": Best non-English films - IMDb; 3 Non-English Films That Will Make You Forget You're Reading Subs
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