grammaticality - subjunctive in a "non-if" hypothetical clause
I know that both the conditional sentences below are acceptable:
If I were an animal, I would be a horse.
If I was an animal, I would be a horse:
But what about this?
- It would be unwise for a person who were only a junior in the company to criticise the boss.
You could say Were a person only or Were a junior to criticise at the start of a sentence for a reversed hypothetical, but using were after the relative pronoun who sounds strange to me.
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