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Rule "no vs not"

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Description:	no vs not
Message:	It seems that the adverb "not" is incorrect in this context.
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	There are not good. Correction suggestion: no There is not similarity between her name and my email. Correction suggestion: no In North Africa, there are not jaguars. Correction suggestion: no There is not set timetable for a decision. Correction suggestion: no You said Jeff Skilling left for "personal reasons" and there were not hidden financial problems. Correction suggestion: no
Correct sentences for comparison:	There are not enough words. There are not so many teachers here. There is not much hope. There's not going to be a party. The hospital there is not huge. The folks that work there are not mechanics ad they don’t know what they are doing. Naomi died in 1956, and she did not have a kaddish at her funeral because there were not ten Jewish men present. There is not left one man to seven women, and everywhere there are widows to still-living husbands.
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ID:	NO_NOT [3]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-05-09 22:33:07 +0200)

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