I’d appreciate it if someone would answer my question. Thanks in advance.
Q1. Are the following 5 sentences all the same in meaning? Q2. And which is common?
A: Whether you will succeed or not depends on your (own) efforts.
B: Whether you will succeed or not is dependent on your (own) efforts.
C: Whether you will succeed or not is up to your (own) efforts.
D: Your efforts will determine whether you will succeed or not.
E: Your efforts will be responsible for whether you will succeed or not.
Q3. Can “Whether you will succeed or not” be replaced by “Your success” or "Your future success?
Q4. In D, can “determine” be replaced by “decide”?
Q1 C and E sound a little clumsy and I would not use them.
Q2 For me the best options would be:
Whether you succeed or not is up to you.
Whether you will succeed or not is down (depends on) to the effort you make.
Whether or not you succeed will depend on the effort you make.
Q3 Yes
Q4 Yes
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Q5 Is the sentence, Whether you will succeed or not depends on how much effort you make
(how hard you try / how much you try), OK?
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Q6 Is the sentence, Whether you will succeed or not depends on how much effort you make (how hard you try / how much you try), OK?
Q7 Is the sentence, “It’s up to your (own) efforts whether you will succeed or not”, OK?
Q8 Concerning your example, Whether or not you succeed will depend on the effort you make.—Is the sentence, Whether or not you will succeed will depend on the effort you will make, grammatically OK?
Why are “will” (will succeed) and “will” (will make) omitted? For brevity or in terms of language economy?
Q6 Concerning your example, Whether or not you succeed will depend on the effort you make.—Is the sentence, Whether or not you will succeed will depend on the effort you will make, grammatically OK?
Why are “will” (will succeed) and “will” (will make) omitted? For brevity or in terms of language economy?