Gramma quick fix

Contributors
1

The following sentence reads a little off:
“It would be nice if the flavor was on the left and the price was on the right.”

Both “was” should instead be “were”

“It would be nice if the flavor were on the left and the price were on the right.”

ChatGPT says "you could make a minor improvement by using the subjunctive mood for “was.” The revised version would be:

“It would be nice if the flavor were on the left and the price were on the right.”

In formal English, “were” is traditionally used in hypothetical statements like this one."

2

I don’t think ChatGPT’s suggestion is good here (as usual). We tend to aim for simpler language in the descriptions and I don’t think switching to a more formal mood is needed here. Strict grammar rules require ‘were’ here, but that usage is increasingly less common than ‘was’ here, so I worry that switching to more formal language would actually make this less clear.

3

the style of freeCodeCamp is not formal