"If I am a river, you are the ocean." Is this okay? We can not be anything like rivers and oceans. So I think we should apply conditional two here or it is allowed in songs as poetic license? Thank you and I really appreciate your opinions.
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Conditional I seems fine if you are creating a metaphor, as here.
— Mister Micawber
Conditional I seems fine if you are creating a metaphor, as here.
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