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    The document discusses the subjunctive mood in English and how it is often used with the verb "wish" to express something contrary to fact or reality. It provides examples of using wish with the subjunctive in present, future, and past tenses. Wish is used to express wanting a situation to be different than it actually is. Common verb forms that follow wish in the subjunctive include "could", "would", and "were" in present tense, and "had" in past tense.

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    The document discusses the subjunctive mood in English and how it is often used with the verb "wish" to express something contrary to fact or reality. It provides examples of using wish with the subjunctive in present, future, and past tenses. Wish is used to express wanting a situation to be different than it actually is. Common verb forms that follow wish in the subjunctive include "could", "would", and "were" in present tense, and "had" in past tense.

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    Subjunctives

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    Subjunctives

    "Wish" is often used with the subjunctive because the meaning of wish is
    related to something unreal.

    Wish is used when the speaker wants reality to be different, to be exactly
    opposite.

    SUBJUNCTIVE WISH

    Future




    Example : a. I wish you would stop saying that.
    b. We wish that you could come to the party tonight.
    c. I wish I wouldnt have to work overtime tonight







    could + V1
    Subject + Wish (that) + subject2 + would + V1
    were + V-ing


    Present



    Example : a. We wish that you were old enough to come with us
    b. They wish that they didnt have to go to class today.
    c. I wish that she forgot that today is my birthday.

    Past


    Example : She wished that she had had more time last night
    Subject + Wish (that) + Subject2 + Verb2 / were
    Subject + wished (that) + subject2 + had V3




    Example : I wish that you had come here yesterday

    Subject + wish (that) + subject2 + could have v3 / had v3
    SUBJUNCTIVE AS IF / AS THOUGH
    Present


    Examples:

    Verb form following wish Fact
    Wish about future a. I wish we could have dinner
    tonight
    b. She wish her
    c. I wish I could go to Japan
    nextweek

    a. They cant have dinner
    tonight
    b.
    c. I cant go to Japan next
    week
    Wish about present a. I wish i could go
    b. I wish I knew the way to
    traditional market
    c.

    a. I cant go
    b. I dont know the way to
    traditional market

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