NO | NOT ANY + comparative – English Grammar Profiler

Let’s look at an expert example of limiting comparison:

Now, these people are no more special than any of us.

(listen to this sentence)

‘no more‘ = not more

In Collins dictionary as an ADVERB at B1+

use no to make the negative form of a comparative.

In the English Grammar Profile, C2 point 74 in the category of ADJECTIVES is defined as:

‘no’ / ‘not any’ to limit the scale of comparison. (comparative clauses)

*But really this grammar is equally useful with comparative adverb phrases.

A search in iWeb corpus for:
no _JJR

1 NO BETTER 75445

*We have another page of examples for this.

There’s no better example than China.

(listen)

2 NO LATER 51561 3 NO FURTHER 51451 4 NO LONGER 31300

5 NO GREATER 15045

6 NO HIGHER 7820

1 SHOULD BE NO HIGHER THAN THE 23

   Fort Worth Star-Telegram Each will have a two-car garage and should be no higher than the typical residential home.

2 THERE IS NO HIGHER CALLING THAN 21
3 THERE IS NO HIGHER AUTHORITY THAN 20

7 NO WORSE 7330 8 NO LARGER 6181 9 NO BIGGER 5392 10 NO EARLIER 4299 11 NO CLOSER 3615 12 NO LOWER 2851 13 NO FARTHER 2615 14 NO OLDER 1936 15 NO EASIER 1829 16 NO FASTER 1661 17 NO SMALLER 1379 18 NO WIDER 1181 19 NO STRANGER 1165 20 NO DEEPER 976 21 NO FINER 949 22 NO STRONGER 834 23 NO TALLER 782 24 NO HARDER 702

25 NO SHORTER 539

not any _JJR 1 NOT ANY BETTER 962 2 NOT ANY WORSE 214 3 NOT ANY EASIER 161 4 NOT ANY HIGHER 116 5 NOT ANY HARDER 93 6 NOT ANY CLOSER 91 7 NOT ANY BIGGER 72 8 NOT ANY FASTER 70 9 NOT ANY CHEAPER 56 10 NOT ANY LARGER 42 11 NOT ANY FURTHER 42 12 NOT ANY LOWER 40

13 NOT ANY SAFER 40

14 NOT ANY SMARTER 32 (B1 vocab)

15 NOT ANY STRONGER 31 16 NOT ANY GREATER 29 17 NOT ANY HAPPIER 28 18 NOT ANY SIMPLER 26 19 NOT ANY HEALTHIER 24

20 NOT ANY SMALLER 22

21 NOT ANY THICKER 22 (B1 vocab)

   Gizmodo Australia In reality, it’s not any thicker than a standard charging cable.

22 NOT ANY HEAVIER 19 23 NOT ANY WIDER 17 24 NOT ANY TALLER 16

25 NOT ANY LOUDER 15

no more _JJ 1 NO MORE LIKELY 1448 2 NO MORE WAITING 1042

3 NO MORE DIFFICULT 996

4 NO MORE EFFECTIVE 935

5 NO MORE IMPORTANT 925 6 NO MORE WORRYING 896 7 NO MORE EXPENSIVE 711 8 NO MORE DANGEROUS 498 9 NO MORE SEARCHING 335 10 NO MORE FREE 330 11 NO MORE COMPLICATED 307 12 NO MORE TRYING 284 13 NO MORE POWERFUL 257 14 NO MORE AVAILABLE 227

15 NO MORE RIGHT 216

16 NO MORE EVIDENT 215

17 NO MORE WASTED 212 18 NO MORE SUCCESSFUL 195

19 NO MORE ACCURATE 190

20 NO MORE STRUGGLING 183 (not really an adjective)

21 NO MORE LOST 177 22 NO MORE MESSY 173 23 NO MORE REAL 163

24 NO MORE NEW 158

25 NO MORE VALID 153

The highest vocabulary is B2:

effective, evident, struggling, valid