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This is a line to a poem I wrote. Could you please supply me with the proper grammar for the words in parenthesis. “I know that time would stand still if I (was) more (then) just a memory.”

Posted on February 7, 2013

Terra,

The correct grammar requires the sentence to read as follows: “I know that time would stand still if I were more than just a memory.”

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