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kyonides
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 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:15 am Post subject: Are these 2 sentences correct or not? |
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| Quote: | | the Internet might be your best friend or your worst enemy. It just depends on if it has a bad hair day or not |
I just want to know that before I use it as a forum signature hehehe.
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The Internet might be either your best friend or your worst enemy. It just depends on whether or not she has a bad hair day. |
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Tolkien_Freak
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:37 am Post subject: |
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I think it more depends on where on the internet you choose to go ^_^
But it's a great signature! |
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Kiri
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I would say "whether" instead of "if", but I'm not native English speaker, so it's just my feeling  |
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eldin raigmore
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| kyonides wrote: | | Quote: | | the Internet might be your best friend or your worst enemy. It just depends on if it has a bad hair day or not |
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It's just fine informally.
| Kiri wrote: | | I would say "whether" instead of "if", but I'm not native English speaker, so it's just my feeling |
Formally, maybe, it could be something like this:
| Quote: | | The Internet might sometimes be your best friend or sometimes your worst enemy. It depends only on whether or not it's having a bad hair day. |
I'm a native speaker and that's my intuition of formal perfection. Which probably means other native speakers would have different intuitions.
But for a sig, why be formal?
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Tolkien_Freak
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| eldin raigmore wrote: | | I'm a native speaker and that's my intuition of formal perfection. Which probably means other native speakers would have different intuitions. |
I'd agree with you on this one.
'If' is certainly fine informally. |
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