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- I was or I were? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
From other's conversation,I found out they mentioned I was and sometimes they also mentioned I were Is there any rules for I was were?
- grammar - as if it is vs. as if it were vs. as if it was - English . . .
I learned from many sources that as if it were is accepted by all native English speakers And as if it was is widely used, especially informally But is the simple present indicative accepted as
- What is the difference between were and have been?
What is the difference between "were" and "have been", and are these sentences gramatically correct? 1) some of the best known writers of detective fiction in the twentieth century were women
- Meaning Diffrence Would be and were - English Language Learners . . .
Were -ing (past continuous of BE) is used to situations which were happening at a special time in the past and none hypothetical, it is more direct, not imaginative
- Meaning using was to and were to in sentence
That is, both "were to" (using the irrealis "were") and "was to" (using a past-tense verb) would usually be interchangeable in a sentence structured similar to yours, but that would be if the sentence was in non-fiction text
- tense - If something was vs If something were - English Language . . .
"If + were" expresses the subjunctive mood, which refers to wishes and desires and is known as a "non-factual" mood If you're mentioning a possibility or a probability, a chance that something could be, use " was "
- Who was or Who were? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Which of the following is correct ? Who were these buildings designed by? Or Who was these buildings designed by? Does were was refer to "these buildings" or "who"?
- What does were to be mean? Is that some kind of a tense?
Consider the following sentence, from " Introduction to Control Systems " by Malgorzata Zywno: Note that if a summer were to be moved behind the block, the additional gain would be equal the value of the block gain, instead of its inverse [bold mine] What does "were to be" mean there? As far as I know, this is a second-type conditional sentence, and there should be " was " there (not " were
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