bonke88 wrote:
I understand that 'were' is incorrect here, but my question is why ?
When you use the condition: if 'past simple' then --> 'would' you should use "were" instead of "was".
It wasn't enforced here because there is no condition, just a description of the past ?
Hi bonke88m, indeed, you might be confusing this with (what's called)hypothetical subjunctive , wherein you need usewere . However, this is not that case.
As you rightly mention, this is just a description of the
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