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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Subjunctive mood

Am I always need to use the subjunctive mood when I talk about hypothetical situations?

Because I read sometimes article about english grammar and I find the author writes something like "I wish I wasn't so busy", but as I figured it suppose to be "I wish I weren't so busy".

So can anyone explain to me what is going on in here?
  

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Anonymous Am Do I always need to use the subjunctive mood when I talk about hypothetical situations? No. It's quite common to use the indicative ( was ) instead of the subjunctive ( were ) in those kinds of sentences.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Am Do I always need to use the subjunctive mood when I talk about hypothetical situations?
  • No.
  • It's quite common to use the indicative ( was ) instead of the subjunctive ( were ) in those kinds of sentences.
  • It seems to me that the British are somewhat more likely than the Americans to use was .
  • CJ
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AnonymousAm Do I always need to use the subjunctive mood when I talk about hypothetical situations?
No. It's quite common to use the indicative (was) instead of the subjunctive (were) in those kinds of sentences. It seems to me that the British are somewhat more likely than the Americans to use
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