Monday, 4 January 2016

grammaticality - Double negation "does not any"

I understand that any has negative connotations, as can be seen in the above link, but I need to say that there are no pages in a book. I've come up with the following sentence:




That book does not have any pages.




Is this a correct way to say that there are no pages in that book? It seems to be a double negation, with does not and any, so that would seem to mean that the book does have pages. Should I use a different word to any?

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