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I thought "If I had been" is past indicative, and "If I was" is ungrammatical. Insofar as hodgepodgy English has real rules anyway...
by Evbn 14y ago
I thought "If I had been" is past indicative, and "If I was" is ungrammatical.
Insofar as hodgepodgy English has real rules anyway...
- prodigal_erik 14y ago"Had been" is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluperfect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluperfect, further into the past than "was".