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Second conditional

Imagined or unlikely situations: if I were you, I would…

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    Second conditional: If I were

    In hypothetical if-clauses, were is the usual formal choice: If I were rich, I would buy a house. With I, he, she, or it, was is also used in informal English. This does not apply to inverted clauses such as Were I rich.