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Davefromthefreeway Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

sentence structure again

0 This has been eating me alive the last few days: is it correct to say, "If i 01u00were02u00 to tell you"?02br
00I think its supposed to be 01u00was02u00 but many people say 01u00were02u00. I am pretty confused, big thanks to the one who helps me050010id1
  

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0 'If I were to tell you' is correct. If you search this site for threads on 'subjunctive' you'll find a lot of explanations. 0-

  • 0 'If I were to tell you' is correct.
  • If you search this site for threads on 'subjunctive' you'll find a lot of explanations.
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0 'If I were to tell you' is correct. If you search this site for threads on 'subjunctive' you'll find a lot of explanations. 0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10'If I were to tell you' is correct. If you search this site for threads on 'subjunctive' you'll find a lot of explanations.12blockquote
11b01font00And if you search Google, you'll find a lot of 'was'. That doesn't mean that Nona isn't right; rather, it mea

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