I have read a lot of information about this topic, but I still don't know why my book says that the answer is "wasn't" in the following sentence:  If the driving test ___________ so difficult, there would be more accidents.  If this is a hypothetical case (the fact is the test is difficult, not easy), why does my book say the answer is "wasn't" and not "weren't"?
If I was... If I were...   When is it correct to use "If I was" vs. "If I were" in standard English?
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In this scenario:   The link between a principle and a mirror server becomes unavailable for a period of time (e.g. network outage) Incremental log backups are still being taken during this time Then the principle database fails and is unrecoverable   Is it possible to restore the incremental log backups onto the mirror to bring it up to date and back online, or would you need to start from scratch with a restore of a full backup?  Depending on the size of the database the difference could be hours of downtime so it would be nice to know.  I'm predominantly interested in SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 but other people may be interested in other versions if there's a difference. Why queuable apex accepts sobjects where as future methods doesn't? I was going through asynchronous apex and reading it made me confused at one point. In future methods, we cannot pass sojects for reasons future methods being executed at a later point of time, by the time it is executed the sboject data could be stale. But, at the same time, the more advanced queuable apex accepts sobjects. Why is it so? The same reason is applicable for queuable apex also right? kindly clarify. How to animate noise texture "seed"? It's possible to animate a change noise texture by animating the texture coordinates with a mapping node or by animating the texture space, however this only works on one axis at a time (on the other axes the texture will appear to be sliding across the object's surface).  For example, the top face has the desired effect but the other faces appear to be moving/sliding upwards:    Even with all three axes location and rotation animated it still appears to be sliding rather than statically changing.    Is there some way to make each face appear like the top face in the first gif but still be seamlessly blended with the other faces? This should work for other shapes as well.  In other words, I'm looking for a way to animate the "seed" of the texture. Do I need a Japanese transit visa when arriving at Narita and departing from Haneda? I'm arriving from New Delhi, India (Indian passport) with JAL at Narita on 11th July at 07:30 and departing for San Francisco with JAL at 00:05 on 12th July from Haneda. Do I need a transit visa as I'll be switching airports and spending a few hours at JAL City Haneda Airport Hotel?  Previously I had connecting flights from Narita to San Francisco and obtained shore passes to relax at Narita Nikko Hotel. Now I'm travelling with my elderly Mom and do not want complications at Narita immigration or later in the day while going from Narita Airport to Haneda airport. Please advise. Do Arcane Ward's starting hit points include the INT modifier once or twice? 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Questions that might be more helpful for this matter are:           Question  I learned that MS Word uses a slightly different version of the unit "point" (pt) than TeX does:     The 12 point of Word will be PostScript point, which in TeX would be called 12bp. A TeX pt is slightly smaller: it's 1/72.27 inch, while a bp/PostScript point is 1/72 inch. See also    ( in )  I'm writing a paper that would usually be expected to be "typeset" in MS Word, thus I want to use the same font size as Word would.  How do I set a document e.g. in the "12pt" font size that MS Word would use?  In case it matters, I'm using the article document class, Latin Modern (lmodern) as a font with the T1 font encoding and compile with pdfLaTeX, but input on different set-ups is more than welcome. Why did JJ Abrams recreate the Star Trek Timeline? In the 2009 version of Star Trek, Nero and the Romulans come back through time via Blackhole and kill Kirk's dad and the original Star Trek timeline is altered  creating a whole new reality.  Why would Abrams not just stick to the timeline given by Roddenberry instead of altering it? Need a way to do a "loop cut" on a triangle fan Need a way to do a loopcut- ish thingy on the blue line How to solve and see resolution of $13^{53} \pmod 7$ using Fermat little Theorem? How to make Ethernet work on Android over OTG? Delete one of the OS via Ubuntu I'm currently running on dual boot (win 7 and ubuntu). I'd like to know how to delete my Windows 7 OS using ubuntu Force refresh view in LWC In Aura, we can do      $A.get('e.force:refreshView').fire();   to cause standard components to update.  How can we do an equivalent in LWC because sfdx refuses to publish .js code with $A in it saying the usage is disallowed in LWC?  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