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Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:20 am**

When we say :
Were I to go to the party, I would buy new clothes.
Why we couldn't use am instead of were?

Posted: **Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:06 am**

Because this inverted construction, an unreal hypothetical conditional, exists only in the past subjunctive.

Inversion pattern in conditional sentences