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Old October 14, 2009, 12:14 PM
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I'm very grateful to everybody . Anyway I need time to study these sentences, I had never thought that it could be so complicated, I'm really surprised.

By the way, sometimes I like to study a language in a prescriptive way, really I don't mind, since this is the way I've studied my own language. Yes, maybe we could compare the rules of a living language to a caged eagle, but maybe first we have to study a prisoner bird to understand its flying.

As I'm an absolute ignorant about this subject, I have found the link quite interesting, but I'll be careful.

Anyway I'm quite grateful for your help and, as this subject is not my objective in this year, I'll put it off until I'll have enough time to study carefully the difference between if and whether, since I think it's quite interesting. At this moment, I have enough with my conditional sentences
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