"It is" vs. "it was" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
@Yong: The be verb isn't transitive, it's stative, and doesn't take an object.Almost all native speakers of English, educated or not, will say "It was me", but if you look at 19th-century and …
is it was a or is a - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 29, 2017 · I have two questions:- 1) A girl was talking near a group of kids. The kids were a bit scared of that girl. Also that girl was very beautiful. When the girl left they started talking …
grammar - what is the meaning of "it was to be"? - English …
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grammaticality - Behave as if it was or it were - English Language ...
Of course Queen Elizabeth does not count because it was her whole bloody job to say that. She also does not count because her own great-great-great-grandmother wouldn't have …
word choice - It was done / It had been done yesterday - English ...
Jun 12, 2015 · It just depends on the context, or what you want to convey about the context. If you say to me "It had been done yesterday", I'll try to think of something that happened earlier …
"Yes, I thought it was very good." Why "thought"?
It does indeed mean you had that thought in the past, while watching the movie. It doesn’t automatically tell us anything one way of the other as to what you think now; and I think the …
"if it were possible" vs "if it was possible" [duplicate]
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meaning - how it is vs how is it / how that is vs how is that
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It was he ... / It was him [duplicate] - English Language & Usage …
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"If it was" or "if it were"? [duplicate] - English Language & Usage ...
In your specific case, neither 'was' nor 'were' is best; you should say "if it is running". "If it were running" is subjunctive case, used to describe hypothetical situations: "If it were running, I …