No longer vs not anymore/nomore

[Sidle Jinks]

Hello ecerybody!

Could you please tell me, what is the difference between no longer/not any longer and not anymore/nomore?

Thank you in advance
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[Comenius]

One is more commonly used in statments, the other in responses to questions.

For example:

I no longer go the gym. I don't go to the gym anymore.

Do you still go to the gym? Not anymore.

Personally, I don't really use the phrase "not any longer" as it sounds a bit awkward to my ears, although I can't say it's technically ungrammatical.

I don't believe "nomore" as you've spelled it is a word.

-David
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[Sidle Jinks]

David, thank you very much for your explanation!

[tortoise]

I think they are the same in meaning, but different in position in the sentence.

S + no longer + V.

S + V + any longer/ any more.

Tortoise

[Hieu]

Hi Sidle Jinks,

We can use not...any more, not ... any longer and no longer to say that a situation has changed. They have the same meaning but take different positions in a sentence. No longer usually comes before an ordinary verb and after verb BE and it is used in statements. Any more or any longer usually comes at the end of the sentence and they are used in nagative sentence (V + not). We don't often use no more in this situation. We only use no more before a noun to say about a level or quantity.

Ex: There's no more bread.
She's no more a great singer than I am.

Hope that you can understand.

Pham Trung Hieu
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[Sidle Jinks]

Hieu, thank you very much!
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[Alan]

Hi,

I think you have to be careful about this example: She's no more a great singer than I am because it falls into a different category and is more often written: She is no more of a singer than I am.

This is clearly different from I have no more money and comes into the idea of comparison as in: I have no more money than you.

Alan
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