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Instructor1955 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

If +Will + Be

I 'd like to know your opinion about the following sentence:
"I don't know if I'll be there, next September."
Regards
  

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" Sounds fine to me, though I would not use a comma.. If you are worried about 'will' in the if- clause, remember that this is not a conditional sentence. 'If' could be replaced by 'whether' in your sentence with no real difference in meaning.

— Fivejedjon

  • " Sounds fine to me, though I would not use a comma..
  • If you are worried about 'will' in the if- clause, remember that this is not a conditional sentence.
  • 'If' could be replaced by 'whether' in your sentence with no real difference in meaning.
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Instructor1955"I don't know if I'll be there, next September."
Sounds fine to me, though I would not use a comma.. If you are worried about 'will' in the if- clause, remember that this is not a conditional sentence. 'If' could be replaced by 'whether' in your sentence with no real difference in meaning.
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Instructor1955I don't know if I'll be there ...
As stated above, get rid of the comma and all will be fine.

if + will is OK in indirect questions such as occur after "I don't know", "No one knows", "I wonder", "I want to ask him", etc.

CJ
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