NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS

ne...aucun(e) *ne... guère *ne...jamais ne...ni...ni ne...nulle part *ne...pas du tout *ne...pas encore *ne...pas non plus ne...personne *ne...plus *ne...que *ne...rien

no, not any, not a single (stronger than ne...pas) hardly never neither...nor nowhere not at all not yet not either no noe, not anyone, nobody no longer, not any longer, no more only nothing

A. PERSONNE, RIEN, and AUCUN(E) can be used as subjects, in which case they are placed in the normal subject psotion followed by NE. (PAS is never used with these expressions).

Le weekend passé, personne ne m’a téléphoné. Rien ne s’est passé. Mes Amis ? Aucun ne m’a rendu visite.

B. PERSONNE & AUCUN follow the past participle rather than auxiliary verb when acting as the object of the verb. The negative adverb NULLE PART also follows that past participle in the past tense.

Je n’ai vu personne. Mes amis. Tu n’as vu aucun ? Il n’est allé nulle part.

 
C. AUCUN(E) frequently acts as an adjective & can modify subjects or objects and thus is placed before the noun it modifies with no articles.

Aucune letter ne m’est arrivée. Je n’ai eu aucun visiteur.