[Grammar] What would happen if 4

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Bamdad

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Are these sentences correct or Not? please help me to know

What will happen for the peoples who tell a "White lie"?

What will happen for people who tell a big lie?

What would happen if women told "White lie"?

What would happen for women who told a "White lie"?

What would her posture if he told a "White lie"?

On what condition people tell a "White lie"?

On what condition women tell a a "White lie"?
 

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Hi.
Please note I'm not a teacher.

-things happen to people, not 'for';
-use 'people' in your first sentence (unless you mean people who belong to different nations);
-you needn't quotation marks for 'white lie'; you also needn't capitalize the word 'white';
- you forgot 'be' in your fifth sentence (what would her.... be if...)
-take a closer look at your last 2 sentences - they lack auxiliary verbs.
- I'm not sure it's ok to say 'on what condition'. I'd use 'under what conditions' or simply 'why'.
I'd be interested to hear a native speaker's comments on this.
 

Barb_D

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Verona gave you good advice.

Try to rewrite these sentences based on that input, as well as this: Under what conditions do..., or Under what conditions would...

If you repost them with those changes, you should be very close and then we can take another look.
 

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-you needn't quotation marks for 'white lie'; you also needn't capitalize the word 'white';
I'd be interested to hear a native speaker's comments on this.
Good advice, Verona.

Your English is, as usual, good.

You might be interested in the one slip I have picked out.

Need, when used as a modal, is normally followed by a bare infinitive.
Need, when used as a full verb, can be followed by either or to-infinitive or a noun. So, any of these are natural:

You needn't use quotation marks...
You don't need to use quotation marks.
You don't need quotation marks...
 
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