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Which is right ... 
September 28, 2003, 09:00 PM
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[i] "I wish it were..." or "I wish it was..."? [/i]
[b] "I wish it were..." [/b]
There is often confusion about [b]were[/b] (a past subjunctive) and[i] was [/i] (a past indicative). In conditional sentences where the condition is unreal or not yet real and in that-clauses after to wish, use were :[b] "I wish it were true that he loved me"[/b] or [i] "If anyone were to ask me to stay, I would refuse." [/i] Were is also used following 'as if' and 'as though': "The toddler wore the towel proudly, as though it were a Superman cape." Were is also part of these fixed expressions: as it were, if I were you.
Was has many other uses, e.g. "The viewing audience wanted to know if the actress was pregnant."
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