Timeline for How to conclude long "whether ... or" clauses
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| Sep 19, 2011 at 20:18 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Yes, I am. The phrase "or whether" is used nearly as often as "or if". See this Google Ngram. Since nearly all of the seach results I checked for "or whether" were used in sentences similar to mine above, while most of the instances of "if ... or if" could not be replaced by "whether", that means that "whether ... or whether" is actually more common for this usage. | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 19:38 | comment | added | Dave | Are you sure that "whether ... or whether" is proper form? | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 19:07 | history | answered | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |