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Evbn on Oct 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you do...

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 on Oct 23, 2012 [–]

"Had been" is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluperfect, further into the past than "was".

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