Martin Sewell <M.Sewell at cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 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."
See, native English speakers know the difference.
Now, what's a "cad" again? ;-)
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