I wish i were a boy Both are correct, although there's a bit of room for discussion I wish i were a policeman
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I wish i were a rich man
All the above sentences suggest you want to be something you are factually not
The correct use is decided by when you had that thought If the thought occurred to you when (or before) you were making the call, then would be is an appropriate choice (were is still. What is the difference between were and have been, and are these sentences gramatically correct 1) some of the best known writers of detective fiction in the twentieth.
If it were or if it was can be used to give a hypothetical condition It's not actually true that the car is a part, or an extension, of your body, but hypothetically if it was an. Stack exchange network consists of 183 q&a communities including stack overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their. If you really wanna go nuts with it my thoughts were the ones that had begun to drive me slightly mad
This makes it sound like you and your thoughts are not entirely one,.
Technically, you should use 'were' You are correct that the sentence is subjunctive because of the indefiniteness introduced by 'as though' The subjunctive takes the plural form of the past. But time has no plural (times in the times we have lived! has a completely different meaning)
So unless this were a specific type of a handle like. Use were (instead of was) in statements that are contrary to fact In your sentences it should definitely be If the thought occurred to you when (or before) you were making the call, then would be is an appropriate choice (were is still possible).
It's not actually true that the car is a part, or an extension, of your body, but hypothetically if it was an extension,.
The subjunctive takes the plural form of the past tense. However, if you want your listener to answer the question, what were you doing you should ask what were you doing If you ask where were you when i called the other person. The question is usually in the same form as the answer
So, the question is who.
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