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ca2bj1508

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Hello! just wanted to check if this sentence made sense! any help would be much appreciated : 

在我的父母房子,我总是告诉他们:我劝你还是不环保,不然,照这么发展下去,用不了多久,你们非杀死地球不可

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From my point of view:

非...不可 is more used when you want to express that there something has to happen. Integrated Chinese provides the definition as "have to; nothing but... would do." I will use simpler examples to illustrate my point:

他每次去買東西,都非買名牌的東西不可。 Everytime he goes shopping, he has to buy name-brand things

我明天有中文考試,所以非複習這一課的生詞不可。  I have a Chinese test tomorrow, so I have to review the vocabulary of this lesson.

I hope that this helps, and that all of the information I have given is accurate. :)

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Yeah, it's the 我劝你还是不环保 bit where the OP has made it sound like he's persuading his parents to NOT be environmentally-friendly. 

 

Welcome to the site, ca2bj1508! You might want to have another shot at it - put what they have to do in the 非。。。不可

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I find it acceptable to use 非……不可 for something that is bound to happen, not only what one have to actively do.

他如果繼續沉迷賭博,將來非弄到家破人亡不可。

So I don't have much problem with 你们非杀死地球不可 , although I do admit I don't see such phrasing often.

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