I love the subjunctive tense but I suspect it's going the way of the dodo, alas!

l, a… my pet peeve of English writers and speakers saying, “If I was you, …,” which makes my skin crawl, as grammatically, it should be, “If I were you, …”
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Nov 20, 2024
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I love the subjunctive tense but I suspect it's going the way of the dodo, alas!
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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