Dependent usage

Whether we go camping depends on the weather.

I don't have a car, so I have to rely on the bus. I don't have a car, so I have to take a bus.

Sometimes the preposition for can be used after someone or something. For example:

We rely on the radio for news. We listen to the news on the radio.

Children depend on their parents for food and clothes. Children depend on their parents for food and clothes.

2. Depend on someone or something+infinitive or gerund

I'm counting on you to do the work. I'm counting on you to do the work.

You can never expect him to arrive on time. You can never expect him to arrive on time.

You can't expect the train to arrive on time. Never assume that the train will arrive on time.

3. Depend on the+clause

Our success depends on whether everyone works hard or not. Our success depends on whether everyone works hard.

The amount you pay depends on where you live. How much you pay depends on where you live.

In it (all) depends [upon]+] clauses, the prepositions on and upon can sometimes be omitted (mainly in spoken English). For example:

It all depends on how you do it. That depends on what you do.

It depends on whether you can afford it.

Note: dependent on[on] is not followed by that- clause (it must be used at this time). For example:

You can trust him to join our club. /You can

I believe he will join our club. You can count on him to join our club.

It depends on the situation. /That depends. For example:

Are you going too? Are you going too?

That depends.

I want to leave early, but it depends. I want to leave early, but that depends.

Extended data:

1. Does everyone change the way they speak to some extent? Depends on who they are talking to. (TPO6-C2)

Does everyone change their way of speaking to varying degrees when chatting with others?

2. According to the pressure on the glacier, the ice crystals inside the glacier will recombine. (TPO7-L4)

According to the pressure of glaciers, ice crystals need to be reorganized.

3. Now, back then, their lives? Relying on the natural resources of forests, especially birch. (TPO7-L3)

At that time, their lives mainly depended on natural resources in the forest, especially birch trees.

I see. Anyway ... like I said, your choice? Shit? What are your priorities and what do you really want to learn? (TPO36-C 1)

I see. Anyway, I said that your decision should be based on your own preferences and what you really want to learn.

5. These factors help to promote the evolution of plants and their pollinators, both of which are? Shit? This balanced and delicate relationship. (TPO34-L3)

These factors promote the evolution of plants and their pollinators, both of which depend on this balance and subtle relationship.

6. Many plants? Shit? And produce a large number of small, relatively short-lived seeds to make up for the fact that the wind is not always a reliable way to reach the appropriate type of habitat. (TPO32-P 1)

Many plants rely on wind to spread and produce a large number of small and relatively short-lived seeds to offset the fact that such wind does not always reach the right habitat reliably.

7. When several individuals of the same species or different species? Shit? On the same limited resources, there may be a situation called competition. (TPO29-P2)

When different individuals of the same species or different species depend on the same limited resources, this situation often leads to so-called competition.

However, in many places (for example, California, Hawaii, Philippines, Japan, Mexico and the Rift Valley in Africa), the resource potential is so great that its future? Shit? On production economics. (TPO2 1-P 1)

However, in many areas (such as California, Hawaii, Philippines, Japan, Mexico and the Great Rift Valley in Africa), this kind of energy may be very considerable, and its prospect will depend on economic production.

9. I think it will. Shit? What do you do in the excavation, but I think we can arrange something. (TPO3-C2)

I think it depends on what kind of work you will do in the excavation work, but I can imagine that we can arrange some.