grammaticality - Which is correct: "There are not any employees" or "There is not any employee"?
Sometimes I see two variants of following sentence:
- "there are not any employees" in the department
- "there is not any employee" in the department
What is the correct sentence?
Answer
As long as you are referring to more than one subject, I would go with:
There are not any employees in the department.
For referring to a single instance, I would go with "there is no"
There is no employee in the department.
If the topic has no plural form (or is rarely used with a plural form), then I would consider "there isn't any":
"There isn't any water" = There is no water
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