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"only I was" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize that the speaker or writer is the only one who did or experienced something. Here is an example: Example: Only I was brave enough to jump off the high dive at the pool party.
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Only I was.
"Only I was there," Mr. Rubenstein remembered.
We should have been insufferable; actually, only I was insufferable.
If only I was a 14-year-old boy!
Only I was a child, so he had power over me.
"If only I was still in government," Warsi will find herself saying.
If only I was still wincing, because these days I fume.
He would have killed me too, only I was late back from school".
Only I was not experienced enough with video chats to remain calm.
"I was kind of driving it by instinct, only I was in a different dimension," he said.
It was, as I'd anticipated, the equivalent of cooking a weeknight dinner for four, only I was cooking for eight.
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