<p>Hey guys, question 1.
1. Do you have to say "whether or not" or is "whether" by itself good? Like "i dont know whether or not to go out, vs i dont know whether to go out. </p>
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<li>Dont you need to start phrases like "if college kids went to school" with "were colleges kids to go to school"?</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance, guys.</p>
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<li> “whether” is generally acceptable in place of “whether or not.” There is one exception I can think of, though:</li>
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<p>“I do not know whether or not to each this apple or this orange.” Here, the intended meaning is that one does not know whether he should eat either of the fruits. If “or not” were omitted, the meaning would be that one does not know which fruit to eat.</p>
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<li> If we are speaking in the future unreal conditional tense, we would say, “If colleges kids were to go to school, …would…”</li>
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