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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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help me with this question please
May be it is not the riight place to ask this question but I could find no one to answer it. I hope you'll help me with the following question.
Whether turkey .........the EU or not,it .......... its doors to the world
a) is not going to enter / do not close
b) enter /would not close
c) to enter / closing
d) will enter / will not close
e) was entering / close
The answer given in the book is D. However, is it possible to use "will" with "whether" in this sentence? Can you please explain it? Thanks a lot.
Whether turkey .........the EU or not,it .......... its doors to the world
a) is not going to enter / do not close
b) enter /would not close
c) to enter / closing
d) will enter / will not close
e) was entering / close
The answer given in the book is D. However, is it possible to use "will" with "whether" in this sentence? Can you please explain it? Thanks a lot.
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D is the only possible answer, but it is not a good answer. It is not a problem of will with whether , which is certainly permissible, but of will in the dependent clause here. Native speakers use present tense ( enters ) in this situation, so I suspect that the question was written by a non-native speaker.
- D is the only possible answer, but it is not a good answer.
- It is not a problem of will with whether , which is certainly permissible, but of will in the dependent clause here.
- Native speakers use present tense ( enters ) in this situation, so I suspect that the question was written by a non-native speaker.
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D is the only possible answer, but it is not a good answer. It is not a problem of will with whether, which is certainly permissible, but of will in the dependent clause here. Native speakers use present tense (enters) in this situation, so I suspect that the question was written by a non-native speaker.
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D is the only possible answer, but it is not a good answer. It is not a problem of will with whether, which is certainly permissible, but of will in the dependent clause here. Native speakers use present tense (enters) in this situation, so I suspect that the question was written by a non-native speaker.
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