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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Future forms

By the time you receive this letter I'll have finished my final exams and whether they want or not, I'll celebrate. I'll be starting loking for a job at the end of the summer because I am going to on holiday around Europe for a month, starting next week.
  

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By the time you receive this letter I'll have finished my final exam s, a nd whether they will want or not, I'll celebrate. I'll start looking for a job at the end of the summer because I am going on a month long holiday to Europe, starting next week.

— Vsuresh

  • By the time you receive this letter I'll have finished my final exam s, a nd whether they will want or not, I'll celebrate.
  • I'll start looking for a job at the end of the summer because I am going on a month long holiday to Europe, starting next week.
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By the time you receive this letter I'll have finished my final exams, and whether they will want or not, I'll celebrate. I'll start looking for a job at the end of the summer because I am going on a month long holiday to Europe, starting next week.
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Something is wrong with/missing from "whether they want or not."

Whether [whoever you are talking about] wants what or or not?
Whether they want me to or not, I'll celebrate?
Whether they want to hire me or not, I'll celebrate?
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BarbaraPAWhether [whoever you are talking about] wants what or or not?
Is the use of simple future "whether they will want" incorrect here?
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Use present for them, "future with will" for I.
Whether they want [whatever it is] or not, I will...
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Thank you,BarbaraPA
Could you tell the reason for that?
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I don't have the grammatical reason for it, but we don't use "will" with future conditional ("if they come," not "if they will come" -- "if you see her, tell her I say hi" not "If you will see her,... " etc.)

This isn't exactly a future conditional, I don't think, but it works the same way.
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By the time you receive this letter I'll have finished my final exams and whether they want or not, I'll celebrate. I'll be starting loking to look for a job at the end of the summer because I am going to go on holiday around Europe for a month, startin
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Hi CJ
I understand what BarbabaPA is trying to convey.
I want you to give your view on using future here " ...and whether they want or not...."

Sometimes I think future is meaningful,especially when there is no indication of how the person will act:
I will serve him lunch whether he will be hungry or not.
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In that sentence, use "whether he is hungry or not" not "will be hungry."

Use the present tense.
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vsureshSometimes I think future is meaningful
It's certainly meaningful, but English does not distinguish between those differences in meaning in if-clauses, whether-clauses, when-clauses, and similar constructions. Therefore, we say:

I will serve him lunch whether he is hungry or not.

when we mean:

I
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