"If I was a man, I would be president." - Madonna, in her song “Super Pop”
A clause that begins with "if," "as if," or "as though" and expresses a hypothetical condition requires a past subjunctive verb. As a rule, the verb "to be" uses the form "were" in the past tense of the subjunctive regardless […]
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