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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
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Please check out the following sentences.

(1) You must keep your promise; otherwise, no one will forgive you.

(2) Follow the traffic rules, or else you will be fined.
  

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contiluo (1) You must keep your promise; otherwise, no one will forgive you. (2) Follow the traffic rules, or else you will be fined. They're both grammatical.

  • contiluo (1) You must keep your promise; otherwise, no one will forgive you.
  • (2) Follow the traffic rules, or else you will be fined.
  • They're both grammatical.
  • The first one could be taken as illogical.
  • That is, as long as you keep your promise, there'll be nothing to forgive.
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contiluo(1) You must keep your promise; otherwise, no one will forgive you.
(2) Follow the traffic rules, or else you will be fined.
They're both grammatical.

The first one could be taken as illogical.

That is, as long as you keep your promise, there'll be nothing to forgive.

If what you mean to say is, "No one will forgive you f
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(1) You must keep your promise, or else no one will forgive you.

(2) Follow the traffic rules, or else no one will forgive you.

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