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Taka

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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.
 
Does this conversion work?

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

Yes.
 
[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:-(
 
Perhaps I am being a little slow this morning, but I can't see the difference.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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