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Wish If Only

The document appears to be notes about using "wish" and "if only" to express regret over past or present situations. It discusses using "wish" with the past tense "had" to talk about wanting a past situation to be different (e.g. "I wish I had studied harder") and using "if only" in a similar way (e.g. "If only I had studied harder"). It also provides examples of using "wish" in the present tense to desire a current situation to change (e.g. "I wish it would stop raining").

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115 views18 pages

Wish If Only

The document appears to be notes about using "wish" and "if only" to express regret over past or present situations. It discusses using "wish" with the past tense "had" to talk about wanting a past situation to be different (e.g. "I wish I had studied harder") and using "if only" in a similar way (e.g. "If only I had studied harder"). It also provides examples of using "wish" in the present tense to desire a current situation to change (e.g. "I wish it would stop raining").

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I wish / If only

Why didn’t it stop raining

My coach isn’t very good

I can’t run any faster

Why does my coach always


shout at me?
I didn’t train hard enough

Why didn’t I study the


videos of my rivals!

I didn’t go to bed early last night


Wish / If only

1 Present
I wish / If only

2 Past
I wish / If only
Wish
I want to play in the game but coach doesn’t choose me
I wish I played in the game

Why can’t she speak better English!


She wishes she could speak better English Present
Why aren’t Mike and Dan taller! To describe a present situation that we want
They wish they were taller to be different. (After I wish / If only we can
use were instead of was)

If only I wish + S + V2
If only I played in the game

If only she could speak better English


If only + S + V2
If only they were taller
Past
To describe a past situation that
we want to have been different.
I wish + S + had + v3

If only + S + had + v3 Wish


Why didn’t I eat the lobster.
I wish I had eaten the lobster

Mary wasn’t here to help us


Mary wishes she had been here to help us

If only
Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum

If only I had eaten lobster


If only Mary had been here to help us
Mike’s apartment is too
I’ve fail my exams. We’re totally lost.
You’re always busy. small. If only he lived in
I wish I had studied If only we had brought
I wish you didn’t a bigger house
harder the map.
have to work so hard.

How to use ‘wish /if only’


in daily life

Thanks
Wipe Out
Read the situation and
complete the sentence

- He missed the wedding ceremony -

If only he __________ (go) to the wedding.

If only he had gone to the wedding


Read the situation and


complete the sentence

- We always have to take the bus home -

We wish we __________ (not live)


so far from the city centre.

We wish we didn’t live so far from the city centre


Read the situation and
complete the sentence

- This computer is useless -


I wish my parents ________ (choose)
a better one when the y bought it.

I wish my parent chose a better one.


Read the situation and
complete the sentence

- She got a job but she feels bored -

She wishes her boss __________


(give) her more responsibility.

She wished her boss had given her more…


Change to this sentence to be
“wish/if only”

“I can’t cook
very well”
I wish I could cook very well
Change to this sentence to be
“wish/if only”

“I didn’t find
A new job”
I wish I had found a new job

Change to this sentence to be


“wish/if only”

“I smoke a lot”
I wish I didn’t smoke a lot
Change to this sentence to be
“wish/if only”

“I broke my leg
I wish I hadn’t broken my leg
Change to this sentence to be
“wish/if only”

“I don’t sleep
well”
I wish I slept well

Change to this sentence to be


“wish/if only”

“I lost my MP3
player”
I wish I hadn’t lost MP3 player

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