if it were to INFINITIVE – English Grammar Profiler

‘Were‘ can place emphasis on the improbability of a condition.  Here’s an example of using an infinitive after ‘if it were”:

It is said that if it were to happen, everything would be history.

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collocated in the NOW corpus:

1 IF IT WERE TO BE 115 most of these are followed by a past participle, a search of which are:

1 IF IT WERE TO BE IMPLEMENTED 5 2 IF IT WERE TO BE APPLIED 5 3 IF IT WERE TO BE MADE 4 4 IF IT WERE TO BE INCLUDED 3

5 IF IT WERE TO BE USED 3

2 IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN 52 3 IF IT WERE TO BECOME 14 4 IF IT WERE TO GO 14 5 IF IT WERE TO COME 12 6 IF IT WERE TO EASE 10 7 IF IT WERE TO WIN 9 8 IF IT WERE TO OCCUR 8 9 IF IT WERE TO HAVE 7

10 IF IT WERE TO MATERIALISE 6