From other's conversation,i found out they mentioned i was and sometimes they also mentioned i were. 在表达“i was”或“i were”时，应该使用“i was”。 “was”的用法：在英语中，“was”是动词“be”的过去式，主要用于第一人称单数和第二人称单数以及第三人称单数主语。当描述真实发生的过. 所以传到现代英语中，i am和he/she/it is的虚拟式的标准用法就应该是 if i/he/she/it were，而不是was。 由上面两表也可以看出，古英语中的虚拟式（虚拟语气）是非常规范、常用的，每个动词都有规范的.
Los Angeles crime scenes in 1953
Is there any rules for i was/were?
谢邀。 根据 主谓一致 的原则，i was是英语中的主流。。 但是在if引导的 虚拟语气 中，如果与现在相反，谓语动词用过去式，be动词一律为were.
1) some of the best known writers of detective fiction in the twentieth century were women. What is the difference between were and have been, and are these sentences gramatically correct? If i were a bird, i would fly in the sky. 在英语中，you作为第二人称，其后的be动词通常使用are或were。are表示现在时态，were表示过去时态。例如：that's my wife you were talking to（刚才和你说话的人是我老.
Was、were的用法和与is、am、are的区别区别如下：1、were是are的过去式，表示复数。2、was是is，am的过去式，表示单数。例句：there were many trees on the playground.以前的操场上有很多.
