<p>If any signer of the Constitution (was) to return to life (for a day), his opinion (of) our amendments (would be) interesting. Or no error.</p>
<p>Can someone explain the right answer to me?</p>
<p>Where is this from and the answer is A right? Was should be were? </p>
<p>"To conquer conditionals on the SAT, look out for the word if and memorize this simple formula to use the correct conjugation: “If . . . were . . . would.”
Taken from: SAT:</a> Improve SAT Score with SparkNotes: The Seven Deadly Screw-Ups</p>
<p>I also believe it's A - should be "were".</p>
<p>yea you're both right...</p>
<p>Thanks soo much shiomi for that link. It's really helpful.</p>
<p>Lol, I'm sooo OCD about proper subjunctive use. Ever since someone corrected me on it one time about a year ago, the sound of "was" as the subjunctive has been torture to my ears. </p>
<p>My friends hate me. Conversations will literally be like:<br>
"I wish it was..."
"You WHAT?"
<em>glares</em> "I wish it were..."</p>
<p>^LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's friggin hilarious HAHAHAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>LOL...</p>
<p>anyway the SAT always test simple correlative --- If .. X had.., X would ...
ive seen this many , many times~</p>
<p>It's like the phrase, "If I were"
sounds wrong, but it's correct.</p>
<p>great quick review, shiomi</p>
<p>well another related question to conditional:
should we use would or would have with a conditional? E.g.:
A. If America were still a British colony, we would still be drinking tea insted of coffee.
OR
B. If America were still a British colony, we still would have been drinking tea instead of coffee.</p>
<p>A...right?</p>
<p>so would the following be correct as well?</p>
<p>if i were you, i would be pretty cool.</p>
<p>A ffor smustehsans brit example.</p>
<p>Wait, if its "were", then it fits with "his opinion"? Isn't "were" plural and "his" singular?</p>
<p>But with ifs, you need a were regardless of plural or not</p>