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Originally Posted by Here4good
Strictly speaking If I were is the more grammatically correct. In real life both (if I were/ if I was) are accepted and many text books now recognise both as being OK.
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Originally Posted by Perikles
Well, I think that is terrible, that a text book could claim if I was is correct. In my mind it is definitely wrong. Why on earth would anyone want to lose the subjunctive, there is precious little of it left in English as it is.  |
Correct.
As a matter of fact, when I came from Chile, I was using that form but I got "corrected", so that's how I say it.
