I yield. I will accept an hour in the rear seat of your personal Tornado for
the honour ! Will I need a G suit and breathing equipment ? I did not know
that the RAF exited such high calibre grammarians !
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-subjunctive.htm
jh
ps: I still think that "I was not ......" is acceptable subject to the fact
that there is alternative phraseology. Perhaps the Oxbridge don is scanning
the airwaves for cogent input from potential student applicants in which
event you could receive favourable consideration :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Nathan's PAW 9: Cardiff with my daughter
> It should be the subjunctive, John, it's conditional, not the past.
>
> Chris
>
> On 4 Mar 2012, at 20:11, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> "I was". I was not..."
>>
>> "You were." You were not..."
>>
>> That's how I recall it should be but perhaps there has been some
>> modernisation in the last 50 years.
>
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