Timeline for The use of wasn't and weren't in second conditional structure?
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| Sep 26 at 12:45 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | This question is similar to: Type 2 Conditional - Should verbs be consistent?. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. | |
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| Mar 26, 2022 at 5:21 | comment | added | gotube♦ | @Astralbee I didn't find any major dictionary that had either 1) a separate definition for "wasn't/weren't" beyond "was not/were not", or 2) grammatical details on either contraction, like meaning or usage in unreal conditionals. If you could cite an example of something pertinent to the OP's question from a dictionary, that would be helpful. | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 21:19 | comment | added | Astralbee | @gotube Even if a dictionary simply defines the contraction, one can then use the dictionary to look up the words in the contraction. | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 21:17 | comment | added | Astralbee | @gotube No dictionary, except all of the major ones. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wasn-t | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 16:34 | comment | added | gotube♦ | @Astralbee, no dictionary has definitions for negative contractions as separate from their non-negative counterparts because they're not words. Even in the case of a legitimate single-word auxiliary contraction like "cannot", a dictionary wouldn't say anything about grammatical subtleties. A better reference would be Swan's Practical English Usage or similar, but that's not a dictionary, so this question is on-topic. | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 16:21 | answer | added | David Siegel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 14:33 | comment | added | KH-vn | I've read about it via Cambridge dictionary online. However, I really need an answer for this question as it has been used in a recent exam of my child. I'm just a non-native English speaker, so I'm not sure about this grammar point. Please help! | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 14:10 | comment | added | Astralbee | Have you used a dictionary to see the difference between 'weren't' and 'wasn't'? Questions that can be answered that way are off-topic here. | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 13:24 | history | asked | KH-vn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |