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- Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:20 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: if it weren't for
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if it weren't for
Greetings from Prague, Czech Republic Some time ago I came across a phrase "If there weren't for my mother..." which seems a bit weird to me. As a non/native English speaker I would like to ask if this is correct English. Of course I'd expect the variation "If it weren't for ..." rather than "If the...