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1. Are both these sentences correct, and do they mean the same:
a) "WHILE you don't commit yourself more, you will never learn."
b) "UNLESS you commit yourself more, you will never learn."
2. In the event that the first sentence is wrong, how you express the same idea in the second sentence, using a negative?
Top answer
" You will never learn if you continue to act as you have been acting, namely, not committing yourself to do more. " You will never learn if you do not commit yourself to doing more. I'd say that these two sentences are approximately equal, but not exactly the same.
- " You will never learn if you continue to act as you have been acting, namely, not committing yourself to do more.
- " You will never learn if you do not commit yourself to doing more.
- I'd say that these two sentences are approximately equal, but not exactly the same.
- The first one seems to complain a little more strongly that "you" don't commit yourself to doing more.
- ) Christine Christie 2.
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Christine Christiea) "WHILEAs long as you don't commit yourself more, you will never learn."
You will never learn if you continue to act as you have been acting, namely, not committing yourself to do more.
Christine Christieb) "UNLESS you commit yourself more, you will never
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