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A question from Abdalla Salih:
Which is correct: 'Let's go home' or 'It's high time we went home', and why do you use the past tense of 'go' here?
Hints:
Abdallah
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And you can see it clearly in a conditional sentence like this one. If I were you, I'd change my job.
Normally you wouldn't expect to see the form were, following the pronoun I. You expect I to be followed by was. But that's only true if the verb form is the past simple. However I were as in If I were you is the correct form of the past subjunctive, which is used here because obviously I am not you and I can't be you, so it's an imagined or unreal situation, If I were you. And that's the same form that's being used in the expressions after the word time.
But, to be honest, I wouldn't worry about trying to remember this or trying to work out if a sentence is subjunctive or not. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:13:56