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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
Hi, OzukakiBurasuki. Thank you very much!
 He doesn't seem to like letting someone else do it.
He doesn't have enough evergy to perform the task.
If he was fine, he would work.
I will remind to follow your advice.
Thanks again! |
THE "WAS" SHOULD BE "WERE" LIKE YOU HAD IT BEFORE. SOMEONE WHOSE ENGLISH IS NOT TOP NOTCH "CORRECTED" IT.
I just put that in all caps and bold so you would see it.
You created a conditional ("If he were fine"), so you are supposed to use the subjunctive mood of "to be," not the indicative mood. The subjunctive is "were" always, no matter the plurality of the subject.
If I were a rich man, I would buy a car.
If I were tall, I would play basketball.
These two are correct.
If I was a rich man <-- sounds weird and wrong to an educated speaker
Lately, uneducated people have confused the was/were in English when using the subjunctive mood. It is sort of like how in Japanese young people write like this:
私
わ学生だ。