pls someone help me with this "if" statement

[confused123]

Which of the below statement is correctly spoken or written:


1) She speaks as if she is better than others.


or


2) She speaks as if she was better than other.




Please explain to me your choice of answer so that I will understand the difference and use it correctly the next time. Show me more other examples like this if you can, I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

[5jj]

Does this thread help? He talks as if he were a doctor.

[TheParser]

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NOT A TEACHER


(1) TOM: I don't like X.

JANET: Why?

TOM: Although she is poor, not very pretty, and not very intelligent, she speaks

as if she was/were better than the others.

was/were = she definitely is not better than the others. (Americans prefer "were.")

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(2) ALICE: Be careful how you speak to X.

GEORGE: Why?

ALICE: I have just discovered the reason why she speaks as if she is better than

the others.

GEORGE: What's the reason?

ALICE: She is a princess in her homeland, and her father is the 5th richest man

in the world.

is = maybe she is better than the others.