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Originally Posted by Ana Laura  Hello,
I would like to know if there is any difference between these 2 sentences:
1)'You'd better not touch her again;otherwise I will kill you'.
2)'You'd better not touch her again or I will kill you'.
Could you give me an example with 'only if' and 'On condition that'?
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IMHO, I think they make perfect sense, Ron. Paraphrased, they both mean,
"If you touch her again, I will kill you."
OR
"My strong [yet purposefully understated] advice is, don't touch her again. If you do, I'll kill you."
There is, to my mind, [and I could be missing something and if that's so, I'd like to have it pointed out to me], no other way that they can be glossed [interpreted/understood]].
For different collocations we use differing forms of negation.
'Only if you don't touch her again will you escape being killed'.
'On condition that you don't touch her again, then and only then, will you escape being killed.'