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Does this conversion work?

How you will end up depends on you.→It depends on you how you will end up.
 

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Does this conversion work?

How you will end up depends on you.→It depends on you how you will end up.

Yes.
 

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[STRIKE]It works as long as you're happy that the second version has a totally different meaning from the first.[/STRIKE]

Edited - apologies. I misread the original.
 
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I cannot see the difference in meaning:-(
 

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Perhaps I am being a little slow this morning, but I can't see the difference.
 

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Apologies. I misread the second version and didn't see the first "you". I thought the conversion just said "It depends on how you end up".

Now that I have re-read it, I agree they mean the same.
 

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Allow me to pick up this old thread. About this:

It depends on you how you will end up.

If it were this instead, would it still sound OK?

It depends on you how to end up.
 

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Allow me to pick up this old thread. About this:

It depends on you how you will end up.

If it were this instead, would it still sound OK?

It depends on you how to end up.

No, that doesn't work.
 
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