If you think 'I can', you can do it how unfavorable your situation...

[Hanifasmm]

Hi everybody,
1. If you think "I can", you can do it how unfavourable your situation,
how many hazards you meet and what adversities you encounter.
Is it grammatically OK?
If wrong, please help me restructure the sentence.
Thanks,
Er.S.M.M.Hanifa

[HamburgEnglish]

It is fine. "I can" is direct reported speech of a person's thought.

[Kitosdad]

If you think "I can", you can do it, no matter how unfavourable your situation,
how many hazards you may/might meet, and whatever adversities you may/might encounter.

I would have written your sentence in this manner.
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[HamburgEnglish]

But you are also a native speaker or?

So in making this suggestion to an ESL explain to them why, so they better understand and can learn .... <smile>

[Cerberus™]

Dad: do you feel that those mights/mays are compulsory?

Incidentally, I'd rather add "is" to the first "no matter" clause to complete it: "no matter how unfavourable your situation is". The reason is that you can only leave out a verb if it is the same as in the other clauses, which it is not, since they have "meet" and "encounter".

In addition, there is something odd in "no matter how ... how ... whatever ...": these three should either be all the same, as in "no matter how ... how ... what ...", so that the reader will add "no matter" to the second and third in his mind; or they should each be different. As it is, the reader would have to supply "no matter whatever adversities you encounter", which is wrong; if you need to supply "no matter" in the second clause, you you also need to supply it in the third.
The other option, all different, would be "no matter how ... however ... whatever ...": then you wouldn't have to supply anything; however, the first option is in my opinion the better: "no matter how ... how ... what ...", mainly because it is shorter.

Hamburg: Dad is a native speaker, and I agree with him that the sentence was wrong as it was.

[HamburgEnglish]

Is it?<smile> maybe, but then again, is dad's correct ? <another smile>

[Hanifasmm]

Thanks to all !
I have learned a lot from you all.
Once again, I thank you all.
Please help me to learn me English.
Er.S.M.M.Hanifa

[Kitosdad]

Hamburger, <smile> I stated quite simply, that that was the manner in which I would have written it. (We call it a suggestion in England, not a lesson.)

If I should require lessons in English I will be sure to have them from an English tutor. <smile>.

Kitos.
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[HamburgEnglish]

You English are so sensitive nowadays .... now if you were Welsh, you would be more freindly (friendly) .... <smile> I am lucky, I have both in me .......

I am not afraid of my typos and it serves as a warning to ESL's (even us natives make mistakes ....)

[Kitosdad]

Maybe friendly would be a better word to use. <smile>

Kitos.
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[HamburgEnglish]

LOL .... I didn't do THAT !!! LOL

[Kitosdad]

LOL. Must have been some other Welshman then.
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