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*Whether I tell him, he'll be happy. ![]() It doesn't sound grammatical to me. Also, for the record, I consider Ask him whether he likes peas or corn. ![]() Ask him if he likes peas or corn. ![]() to be completely interchangeable. Trying to rationalise my instinct, it occurs to me that in either case the person who receives the instruction and follows it simplistically is going to ask "Do you like peas or corn?", so while there is a slight difference of register the semantic content appears to be the same. |
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1) If I tell him, he'll be happy (i.e. he will only be happy if I tell him) 2) Whether I tell him or not, he'll be happy (i.e. he will be happy even if I don't tell him) |
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I'm very grateful to everybody
![]() 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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Interesting post on the two types of "if": http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1912
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