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PreciousJones Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

There's

I'd be interested to go if there's/there was a bike group getting together to do this.

Are both there and there was okay to use?

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We normally use the verb "were" after the word "if". " However, in informal language many people say "was".

— Cynthia3754

  • We normally use the verb "were" after the word "if".
  • " However, in informal language many people say "was".
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We normally use the verb "were" after the word "if". For example,

I would normally say, "I'd be interested in going if there were a bike group getting together to do this."

However, in informal language many people say "was".
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Cynthia3754I would normally say, "I'd be interested in going if there were a bike group getting together to do this."
So would I, but the majority of my fellow-speakers of BrE would say 'was'.
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