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Questions regarding the subjunctive verb mood
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Which is correct: "what if there was" or "what if there were"?
"WERE" because it is the past subjunctive of "to be". It's an oversight by the copy-editor. It's not the biggest deal in the world since the verb "to be" is the only verb in Modern English wherein th …
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Why have the subjunctive and indicative converged in Modern English?
Modern English is syncretic and other languages like French are inflectional. Syncretic languages don't inflect their verbs too often so it's hard to see the subjunctive. It still exists though and …
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When to use "If I was" vs. "If I were"?
It's if I were for hypothetical in the present or future and if I was when talking about something presumed true in the PAST. "IF" then means something likened to "since".
If I were class president, …
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