I wish you luck! I wish I could speak ten foreign languages. I wish I could have helped you before.
Wish you were here, me or my countryman, wish you were here!
Hi, guys and welcome to English Mania! Today we're going to study the phrase I wish
and all different modifications which can be used with it.
First of all you can wish somebody something. I wish you luck, all the best, a happy Birthday!
Don't say I wish that something happens, when you think about the future.
Instead use I hope. I hope you will patch things up with your girlfriend. The same happens for the past.
I hope that they didn't miss their flight. You can't say 'I wish that they didn't miss their flight'.
I hope the weather is fine tomorrow.
The phrase 'I wish' is used in terms of regretting something,
when something is not the way we would like it to be. In this case we use 'wish' then a clause,
where the verb is in the past, past simple. I wish I knew, I wish he helped, I wish she smiled, she talked and so on.
Wish you were here, me or my countrymen, wish you were here!
I just wish we had a bigger apartment. I mean it would be good if we had a bigger apartment.
Here we can substitute the sentence with the conditional number two.
I wish you didn't have to work today and stayed with me. Wish you were here.
When we regret something in the past we use the following construction.
After the verb wish we use a clause where the verb is used in the past perfect tense,
that is using an auxiliary verb 'had' plus the perfect infinitive of the full verb.
Had done, had made, had translated and so on.
I wish I had known about the party, if I had known I would have gone.
So did you get it? Did you get it? You didn't?! How come?! I wish I hadn't said that.
And I mean here it would have been better if I hadn't said that.
I wish I could have helped you with your bag but I was pregnant.
When you say 'I wish I could help you' you mean right now, but you can't for some reason.
I wish I could have helped you - you talk about the past, yesterday, two days ago two years ago and so on.
We can also use the construction - I wish somebody would do something,
and in this case we are actually complaining about something.
So here we want something to happen or change. However be careful,
here we talk about actions and changes, not situations, not how we would like things to be.
I wish they would stop fighting. Gosh! I wish you would clear your desk.
Look at it! It's a mess! My desk is a mess. I should clean it myself.
Compare. I wish you would come. He we talk about an action - you coming to my place.
And - I wish you were here. Being somewhere is a situation, not an action.
So you can't say: I wish you would be here.
Compare. I wish somebody would buy me a car. Also an action, right?
But: I wish I had a car.
Having something is also a situation how we want things to be, not an action, not changes.
You can use wish with an infinitive, wish to do. I wish to speak to the manager.
You can use wish plus an object, plus an infinitive. I wish these people to leave.
Or you can say: I wish that these people would leave.
Okay that's it, I hope that now you know everything about the phrase 'I wish' and you will use it properly.
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