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Old 20-Jul-2005, 11:14
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Default Re: will x 2

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Originally Posted by M56
What's your opinion on the sentence marked by asterisks below?
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Mark stared at him fiercely. "I'm trying to save his life, okay? Maybe, just maybe, he'll see that this is not working, and maybe he'll decide he should wait or something. Why is that so hard to understand?"

"Because he's crazy. **If he'll kill himself, then he'll kill us. Why is that so hard to understand?"**

Excerpt from John Grisham's The Client.
If he's willing to kill himself, he's willing to kill us.

The sentence doesn't mean he'll kill himself first and then us, of course. He has to be willing to kill himself, then he'll be willing to kill us. First he'll kill us, and then he'll himself. What are his intentions?

That's how I see this "will x 2" sentence.

However, I don't often, if at all, think of or hear "will x 2" sentences.

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