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Complete the amateur detective's dramatic advice to the local police chief. Select ALL the phrases that correctly complete the sentence.
"_____ in charge of this investigation, I would immediately question the butler!"
The correct answers are If I were and Were I.
In the second conditional, we use the past tense in the if-clause to show an unreal present situation. For the verb to be, the subjunctive form were is traditionally used for all subjects (e.g., If I were).
Were I is a formal, inverted version of If I were, which drops the word if and swaps the subject and verb.
If I am is a real (first) conditional, and If I had been is a past unreal (third) conditional, which does not match the result clause (I would question).