British English usage: Use if + Past Simple with would + base verb for hypothetical or less likely present/future situations. Were is common in formal British English with I/he/she/it in hypothetical clauses.

Cambridge Grammar reference: Cambridge treats the second conditional as an imagined or less probable situation; the past form marks remoteness rather than past time.

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