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Are these 2 sentences correct or not?

 
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kyonides



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:15 am    Post subject: Are these 2 sentences correct or not? Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would say "whether" instead of "if", but I'm not native English speaker, so it's just my feeling Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kyonides wrote:
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the Internet might be your best friend or your worst enemy. It just depends on if it has a bad hair day or not
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 Very Happy


Formally, maybe, it could be something like this:
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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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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