The speech is the same, but the writing is different. The phenomenon happens with countless words in the Portuguese language. This is another case of grammar confusion when writing an expression. "Nothing to see or nothing to be" have different meanings and usually what people mean is "nothing to see", but end up getting confused.
Understand the difference between them and know which one to use correctly.
Nothing to see
When you want to talk about things that are unrelated or unrelated, the correct usage is “nothing to do”. Usually the expression is accompanied by a negative, as in the sentences of the examples below:
Replacing "nothing to do" with other words you can better understand its meaning:
double negation
It is still common for people to use the expression with a negation in the sentence, thus occurring a double negation with the term “not having”. Its use is not incorrect, although many people condemn it. It serves to reinforce the denial you want to express.
Check out the examples:
there is nothing
This is not an expression considered incorrect, it just doesn't have the same use of “nothing to do” in the sentences in which it appears. It cannot be used to talk about the relationship between two things, for example. In this case, the “nothing” is just a complement to the verb “haver”. Look at the examples:
nothing to see
As opposed to “nothing to see”, some people use “nothing to see”, generating discussion if the form is correct. In fact, there is nothing wrong. This expression, however, was more usual in ancient times it fell out of favor in the language. It works exactly like a synonym for “nothing to see”:
Still in doubt? How do you write: nothing to see or nothing to do? Check out the video:
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