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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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I wish I was the only one who matterS/matterED

Hi, I don't know what tense I should use in following sentence: I wish I was the only one who MATTERS or MATTERED to you? Could you please explain?
  

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Anonymous Hi, I don't know what tense I should use in following sentence: I wish I was the only one who MATTERS or MATTERED to you? Could you please explain? I would keep the past for both verbs.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Hi, I don't know what tense I should use in following sentence: I wish I was the only one who MATTERS or MATTERED to you?
  • Could you please explain?
  • I would keep the past for both verbs.
  • We usually match tenses if possible.
  • I wish I was the only one who mattered to you?
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Anonymous Hi, I don't know what tense I should use in following sentence: I wish I was the only one who MATTERS or MATTERED to you? Could you please explain?
I would keep the past for both verbs. We usually match tenses if possible.

I wish I was the only one who mattered to you?

CJ
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I take it CJ that you don't like the subjunctive mood in "were"?
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wilpeterI take it CJ that you don't like the subjunctive mood in "were"?
"were" is also fine. It just seemed irrelevant to the question about the tense of 'matter'. Since 'was' is not wrong, I found no reason to distract the OP from his/her central concern.

CJ
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