we decided not to use vs we decided to not use

Both "we decided not to use" and "we decided to not use" are correct, but "we decided not to use" is the more common and natural structure. The placement of the adverb "not" before the infinitive verb "to use" is the standard form in English.

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we decided not to use

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase follows the standard structure in English where the adverb "not" is placed before the infinitive verb. It means that a decision was made to refrain from using something.

Examples:

We decided not to use that approach.
They decided not to use the old software.
She decided not to use the red paint.
The team decided not to use the new technology.
He decided not to use his car for the trip.

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Last updated: November 16, 2024

We use UKG and we decided not to use. Our treasury department does ours now and it only takes them less then 5 minutes to process. We are 100% direct ...
Apr 25, 2024 ... We decided not to use white paint and instead opted for Slipper Satin by Farrow and Ball on the woodwork throughout the house for several ...
Nov 7, 2024 ... We decided not to use a prop stylist on my book since my friend (the food stylist) said the book would be more charming, and be authentic ...
May 4, 2021 ... Our team tried it for one application and while I wouldn't say "reject" we decided not to use it in our future applications although we ...
Apr 7, 2013 ... Just to start off we decided not to use ANYTHING remotely hard or an own reliabilty layer (to any extent whatsoever) (this has to be done ...
Apr 22, 2009 ... My daughter has epilepsy but after investigating the side-effects of various medications, we decided not to use medication. Instead we opted ...
Apr 10, 2013 ... Yes, they did get approved, but we decided not to use them… We made passive climbers that were able to be actuated for North Star. A lot ...
In our architecture we decided not to use NiFi Clustering. I have some data feeds that require In Order Delivery of files (xml). Since their data is load ...
Oct 3, 2019 ... ... we decided not to use it at all. Home · Categories · Guidelines · Terms of Service · Privacy Policy. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with ...
Apr 26, 2023 ... We decided not to use the form's standard email field in order to prevent the Asana confirmation email from being sent. Instead, we use a ...

Alternatives:

we chose not to use
we opted not to use
we selected not to use
we determined not to use
we resolved not to use

we decided to not use

This phrase is correct but less common in English.

While grammatically acceptable, this structure is less common in English. It conveys the same meaning as the other phrase, indicating a decision to refrain from using something.

Examples:

We decided to not use that approach.
They decided to not use the old software.
She decided to not use the red paint.
The team decided to not use the new technology.
He decided to not use his car for the trip.

Show examples from the web [+]
Last updated: November 16, 2024

Dec 9, 2022 ... We decided we hated how you were constrained by a healers range, so we decided to not use healers (Including units like Saria) by picking up ...
May 29, 2024 ... My boss had concerns so we decided to not use at this time. I'm not sure how many employees would have used this. Original Message. Original ...
Dec 7, 2021 ... Phil_Seeman: I think you're familiar with events and pagination? No I'm not! I tried it once but we decided to not use that endpoint for now to ...
Sep 22, 2021 ... initially, we decided to not use the infrequent access storage class but the standard storage class. right now, we would like to change this ...
We only started using this product in 2013, and we decided to not use PSET unless there was a compelling reason to. It seemed like overkill to expose ...
Feb 7, 2020 ... After your recommendation, we decided to not use wildcard search. We have changed implementation a little bit. We still use UnifiedSearchFor ...
Jul 22, 2019 ... We decided to not use a thin-contact bearing because there are not many suppliers that offer them at a decent price and have short lead-times.
Apr 6, 2024 ... Hi Damian Fraire Smith , we decided to not use LottieAnimation for this page. Annoying, but we didn't receive any help from Flutterflow ...
Eventually after designing and brainstorming, we decided to not use the rack and pinion for Z movement, but rather 2 lead screws on each side of the mechanism.

Alternatives:

we chose to not use
we opted to not use
we selected to not use
we determined to not use
we resolved to not use

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