none (SUBSTITUTION) – English Grammar Profiler
This is another overlapping point in the English Grammar Profile.
Point 22 in NEGATION is defined as:
negative pronoun ‘none’ to substitute for subject and object pronouns or noun phrases.
Point 99 in PRONOUNS/quantity is defined as:
‘none’ to substitute for subject and object pronouns.
_V none
1 IS NONE 25868 2 HAVE NONE 10695 3 WAS NONE 10447 4 ARE NONE 9528 5 HAD NONE 6168 6 HAS NONE 5936 7 BE NONE 5138 8 WERE NONE 4807 9 ‘S NONE 4365 10 HAVING NONE 2933 11 BAR NONE 2847 12 FOUND NONE 2125 13 SAID NONE 1570 14 LOST NONE 1405 15 FIND NONE 933 16 KNOW NONE 924 17 DO NONE 899 18 LET NONE 894 19 SEE NONE 859 20 GET NONE 837 21 BEEN NONE 836 22 SELECT NONE 800 23 SAY NONE 791 24 GOT NONE 771 25 HOPE NONE 669 26 DID NONE 604 27 SAW NONE 604 28 SAYS NONE 478 29 WALKED NONE 462 30 USE NONE 417 31 DOES NONE 409 32 RETURNS NONE 400 33 WANT NONE 395 34 RETURN NONE 391 35 THINK NONE 390 36 CONTAINS NONE 382 37 FINDING NONE 368 38 CHOOSE NONE 345
39 MEANS NONE 336
40 ENSURE NONE 335
*’none’ is the subject of the relative clause here, so this is not really the best example.
none _V
1 NONE ARE 11687 2 NONE HAVE 9394 3 NONE IS 8517 4 NONE WERE 7641 5 NONE CAN 5039 6 NONE HAS 4432 7 NONE WAS 3881 8 NONE HAD 3433 9 NONE WILL 3365 10 NONE COULD 2185 11 NONE WOULD 1866 12 NONE LEFT 1617 13 NONE SHALL 1229 14 NONE EXISTS 1083 15 NONE SHOULD 1036 16 NONE SEEM 885 17 NONE MAY 772 18 NONE CAME 765 19 NONE EXISTED 704 20 NONE WORKED 686 21 NONE EXIST 672 22 NONE REQUIRED 602 23 NONE COME 547 24 NONE DID 536 25 NONE KNOWN 528 26 NONE FOUND 500 27 NONE DO 464 28 NONE COMPARE 453 29 NONE SEEMED 416 30 NONE STOP 413 31 NONE WORK 378 32 NONE DECLARED 336 33 NONE REPORTED 336 34 NONE MADE 323 35 NONE MIGHT 293 36 NONE KNEW 290 37 NONE BEING 272
38 NONE SPECIFIED 269 (most of these are elipted)
39 NONE NEEDED 247 40 NONE APPEAR 233
41 NONE DARE 231 (this seems like the name of a book: ‘none dare call it treason’)
42 NONE KNOWS 219 43 NONE SEEMS 216 44 NONE SHOWED 214 45 NONE BE 205 46 NONE WENT 193 47 NONE COMES 187 48 NONE TAKEN 184
49 NONE LISTED 180 (most examples are elipted)
50 NONE OFFER 177
B2 vocabulary does not really contain our grammar:
dare, ensure, listed, specified