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Is the following sentence gramatically correct were he to leave she could take his place?
The sentence: "Were he to leave, she could take his place" is gramatically correct.
The phrase is equivalent to "If he were to leave..." and the choice to use the inversion "Were he" instead of "If he were" is a more poetic form and adds emphasis. These types of emphasis-adding phrases are common in hypothetical situations (e.g., "Had I known" instead of "If I had known").
The choice of "were he to leave" is more controversial. It is a colloquial form of English, by which I mean that it is an informal, spoken phrase that one is unlikely to encounter in a formal, written context. One is more likely to find the phrase "If he left, she could take his place" in a formal context or the even more formal "Should he leave, she could take his place."
Could is the conditional form of the modal can. It is unclear from the context if the speaker means "would be able to take" meaning that his leaving would grant her the ability to replace him. I would tend to think not, rather that she has the ability to replace him already, independent of his choice to leave, and that if he left it is possible that she would replace him.
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