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Registered: ‎03-10-2010

Need a good grammarian: Use of "were"

I've been meaning to ask this forever, it makes me wish I had kept my freshman English textbook. What is the rule for using "were" instead of "was"? (If I were going to the store . . ) There is some trick to test this and I just can't remember it.