Tuesday, March 1, 2016

some tips about wish taken from cambridge...

Wish + would

We can use wish + would if we are annoyed about something that is or is not happening, or about something that will or will not happen:
wish you’d stop making so much noise! (You are making a noise; it would be better if you didn’t.)
wish you wouldn’t come through the kitchen with your dirty boots on.(You do come through the kitchen; it would be better if you didn’t.)
In informal situations, we can use wish in the continuous form like this:
He’s embarrassing everyone. I’m just wishing he would go away!
Warning:
We use hope, not wish, when we want something to happen in the future or when we want something to have happened in the past:
hope the weather’s fine tomorrow.
Not: I wish the weather’s fine tomorrow.
hope they didn’t miss their flight.
Not: I wish they didn’t miss their flight.
(“Wish” from English Grammar Today © Cambridge University Press.)

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