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Gencebay90

#425803 Mon, 01 Oct 07 02:42 PM

I have heard that Wish clauses can only work with the tenses below

Present and future:

-Simple past

-could V₁

-would

Past:

-Past perfect

-could have done

Is it true or is there any other tense or sturucture???

Gencebay90

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Yoong Liat

#425805 Mon, 01 Oct 07 02:47 PM

Simple past ( I wish I were younger.)

-could V_{1 (I wish I could lift this rock.)}

-would (I wish I would get better tomorrow.)

Past:

-Past perfect (I wish I had done it another way.)

Yoong Liat

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Gencebay90

#425842 Mon, 01 Oct 07 04:33 PM

For example, can past continous work in wish clauses???

Gencebay90

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Yoong Liat

#425900 Mon, 01 Oct 07 08:23 PM

Gencebay90 wrote:
For example, can past continous work in wish clauses???

"I wish it was not raining so heavily" is one of the examples.

Yoong Liat

Clauses

Gencebay90

#425955 Mon, 01 Oct 07 11:30 PM

Yoong Liat wrote:
Gencebay90 wrote:
For example, can past continous work in wish clauses???

"I wish it was not raining so heavily" is one of the examples.

Present and future:

-Simple past

-could V₁

-would

Past:

-Past perfect

-could have done

A person whose knowledge I really trust says that No other tense but the above tenses can't work in wish clauses

Gencebay90

Tenses, Clauses, Past perfect, Simple past

Yoong Liat

#426244 Tue, 02 Oct 07 04:35 PM

Gencebay90 wrote:
Yoong Liat wrote:
Gencebay90 wrote:
For example, can past continous work in wish clauses???

"I wish it was not raining so heavily" is one of the examples.

A person whose knowledge I really trust says that No other tense but the above tenses can't work in wish clauses

A person whose knowledge I really trust says that No other tense but the above tenses can't work in wish clauses.

I don't understand what you're saying. Could you please rephrase the sentence?

Yoong Liat

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Gencebay90

#426977 Thu, 04 Oct 07 01:32 PM

There is a person I know and that person claims/says that past progressive doesn't work in wish clauses; in actual fact no other tenses apart from the tenses I wrote above don't work

Smile [:)]

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WesternAmerican

#426981 Thu, 04 Oct 07 01:39 PM

If you blindly trust that guy, why did you ask us that question?
Koh has given you a detailed explanation, but you choose to ignore it. Sad [:(]

WesternAmerican

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Yoong Liat

#426996 Thu, 04 Oct 07 02:46 PM

Gencebay90 wrote:

There is a person I know and that person claims/says that past progressive doesn't work in wish clauses; in actual fact no other tenses apart from the tenses I wrote above don't work

I wish it was not raining so heavily. (Are you saying that this sentence is wrong? If you think so, I can understand you. However, please ask your friend whether the sentence is correct. If s/he tells you it's wrong, he should join our Forum to improve his English.)

Best wishes.

Yoong Liat

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