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Originally Posted by Klashikari
By the way, I noticed at the first day, when Keiichi explain about Rena Kai mode, there is this line:
"If a little girl were ever kidnapped here in hinamizawa, ..."
Shouldn't it be "was" instead ?
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It's subjunctive tense, for a hypothetical statement, same as the song title "If I Were a Rich Man".
Keiichi doesn't yet know how very non-hypothetical it could be
For what it's worth, many people use 'was' in this type of situation, but 'were' is grammatically correct.
Shion (Sonozaki Futagotachi)