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▼M.Hoshiさん：
アメリカのプロの作家のＭＬで、以下の２文のどっちが正しいか聞いてみました。とりあえず、その答えを投稿しておきます。
> (1) He must have done his best, or he would have failed.
> (2) He must have done his best, otherwise he would have failed.
I'd say, technically, they're both grammatically correct, but the second one
is clearer than the first one. OR tends to imply that either the first part
occured OR the second part occured. In your example, it's more like UNLESS
the first part occured, the second part could not have occured.
I would also say the punctuation of the second one should be
"He must have done his best; otherwise, he would have failed."
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