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Originally Posted by alan

how about the sentence as follows :

e.g. I don't know whether she loves he (or not).

can we omit the "or not" ??

I don't know whether she loves him or not. (OK)
I don't know whether she loves him. (OK; informal)

whether...or is a set pair. It's called a correlative conjunction. If 'or' is left out, that's OK. Its meaning can be picked up in context.