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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I looked it up
Apparently as a counterfactual statement it should take the subjunctive.
www.ceafinney.com/subjunctive/guide.html

It is as though she were here.
We know she is not here, but it seems so.

So I guess "I know I've not moved out, but it seems so" fits that example.
(, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:39, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
I think you're right
But that's one of your old rules. These days is more flexible and if you're not being formal then you can use "was"
(, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Well, I am being formal
Formal enough to cunt them right in the fuck. "Were" it is.
(, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:49, Reply)

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