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Wed 16 Jul, 2008 10:22 pm
Only if we come together, will we overcome these obstacles.
Is the sentence correct?
Many thanks.
Grammatically, yes. I don't think you need the comma.
The purist might say (and that's not me, maybe he/she will turn up soon) that the correct form of that sentence is
Only by coming together will we overcome these obstacles.
I think that's a little more elegant: but I agree that the first example does not seem wrong.
Only by coming (how about: working, banding) together will we overcome these obstacles.