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Subject:Re: "has no" versus "does not have" From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:03:06 -0800
At 07:06 AM 2/2/96 PST, you wrote:
> Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct and why/why
> not? Are both of them correct?
> 1. The record description is a text entry which has no conditional
> logic.
> 2. The record description is a text entry which does not have
> conditional logic.
> merrie -at- stateoftheart -dot- com
I'm assuming that the condition you're describing is a text that contains no
conditional logic. In that case, they're both poorly worded but not
grammatically incorrect. I'd say:
The record description is text that contains no conditional logic.
