Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
And, if I may add a personal pet peeve. Stop killing the subjunctive tense, all of you! If the sentence refers to a case other than reality, it takes "were" rather than "was." If you have said, "If I was there" you're doing it wrong and it should be "if I were there."
Minor correction. The subjunctive is a mood. If it were a tense it would refer in some way to a point in time.