0 used to form a negative phrase after verbs like "be", "can", "have", "will", "must", etc., usually used in the short form "n't" in speech: --
I still don't know whether she's coming or not.
Are you going to reply or not?
"Are you done?" "I'm afraid not."
"Is he coming with us?" "I hope not."
It was Yuko who said that, not Richard.
"Come and play, Dad." "Not now, Jamie."
I like most vegetables but not cabbage.
I told you not to do that.
He's not bad-looking (= he is fairly attractive).
I'm just not interested.
It isn't hard (= it is easy).
Don't you like her?
I can't go.
I won't tell her.
He's not fat!
1 used to make a word or group of words negative, or to give a word or words an opposite meaning: --
Not that I mind (= I do not mind), but why didn’t you call yesterday?
She was not only an excellent teacher but (also) a brilliant researcher (= she was both these things).
He’s not bad-looking (= He is attractive).
If it’s not yours, whose is it?
It does not come before us in an unmediated purity.
In free and grounded layer s, this mode does not exist.
Not everybody in every circumstance exists as male or female but everybody exists as a body.
It does not matter where the aggression is.
There is not much difference between the two.
Perrault did not wish to deny the authority of the orders.
I am not so sure that this is always the case.
And the application of that is not to be ref used.
