On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:41:32 GMT, mark edward hardwidge
<hardwidg at ux10.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>In rec.arts.sf.science David Ehrens <nospam at nospam.net> wrote:
>> Most journalists would have used the subjunctive, "were".
>> I'm kind of stupid. Could you remind me of exactly when we
>use "was" and when we use "were"? Some cases are obvious to me, but
>not all.
"If I was a hopeless cad, I apologize."
"If I were a hopeless cad, I would never apologize."