 Welcome to this video. Today you're going to learn the difference between have no plus now and don't have plus now. Of course, I'm Jennifer from jforestenglish.com and this channel is dedicated to helping you sound like a fluent confident natural English speaker. Now before we go any further, make sure you subscribe and hit that bell icon so you're notified every time I post a new lesson. Now let's dive in with this video. Today you're going to learn the difference between have no and don't have. So let me give you an example sentence. I have no time. I don't have any time. Now both of these examples have the exact same meaning. We're talking about the existence of time and we're making it negative. So we're saying it doesn't exist in this specific situation. Now when you look at the sentences, you'll notice that the grammar, the sentence structure is very different. The standard way to form a negative is simply to use the second one. I don't have any time. That's probably the one that you're most comfortable with. Now I get questions a lot from students because they hear from native speakers on tv movies or outside of the classroom. They hear native speakers forming negatives with have no and saying I have no time and they're confused by the grammar. So let's make this nice and easy for you. So remember the meaning is the same. We use have no plus the noun when we're talking about desires, emotions, attitudes and concepts. So you can think of time as a concept. But let me give you another example with a desire or an emotion or maybe even an attitude. I could say my boss has no patience. My boss has no patience. Now remember have no of course or verb is have we need to conjugate it with the subject. So here my subject is my boss third person singular. So I need has my boss has no patience. I could also say my boss has no idea. That would be a concept. My boss has no right a concept. My boss has no confidence. That could be an attitude or an emotion. So other common things you could use happiness, peace, joy, any sort of skill as well. So in that category of nouns, we can use the structure have no. Now we use our standard structure don't have plus a physical noun. So anything like pens, papers, scissors, a computer, a phone, all of these are physical nouns. They're not concepts. They're not emotions. They're not desires. They're physical. So we can use this structure and I would simply say I don't have a pen. I don't have scissors. I don't have paper, right? Now of course we can absolutely use don't have with the concepts, the desires, the emotions. My boss doesn't have any patience. That's absolutely correct. So remember that don't have is the standard way to form a negative sentence and have no is an alternative way that's only used in specific situations. So the one specific situation is when we're talking about desires, concepts, emotions and attitudes. Now another time when we can use have no and the noun is we want to emphasize it. We want to make it a lot stronger of a statement. So I can use money as an example. Now money is a physical possession. I can feel it. I can see it. Not like patients, which I can't see. I can't feel it's just a concept or an attitude, but money, I can feel it. I can touch it. It's physical to emphasize the statement. To make it more dramatic, I could use have no and a physical possession. So I could say I have no money, which emphasizes it. It makes it stronger than saying I don't have any money. I have no money. So you might hear statements like this when you really want to emphasize that you don't have it. Now, although you can use have no with physical nouns, you know, you have to think is it common to emphasize that you don't have a pen? Like would it be common to say I have no pens? I mean, I guess depending on context, it could be acceptable to emphasize that you don't have a pen, but really it's not something that you emphasize that you make more dramatic. So just keep in mind that the standard structure is don't have and your noun, but we can use have no and a noun. We use it in two specific situations. We commonly use it with concepts, feelings, emotions, desires or attitudes. And then we can use it with physical nouns when we want to emphasize that physical noun. So now it's your turn to practice. I want you to leave three sentences. One using have no and a desire and attitude or a concept. Another one just using your simple don't have and a physical noun. And your third one, I want you to use have no and a physical noun, but a physical noun that you want to emphasize. So choose that noun carefully because remember, would I really emphasize that I have no chapstick for example. So think carefully about which physical noun you want to use and make sure it makes sense to emphasize that you don't have it. So leave those in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, please hit the like button, share it with your friends and of course subscribe. Now before you go, make sure you head on over to my website, jfordesenglish.com and download your free speaking guide. In this guide, I share six tips on how to speak English fluently and confidently. And until next time, happy studying. All right, awesome job learning this alternative structure that native speakers really love to use, but on very specific situations. So make sure you practice, leave those examples in the comments below and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.