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Conditionals & wishes · CEFR B2 · Confident
Regret. One step further back than the thing you are wishing about.
The shape
wish + past · wish + had + third form
Say what you wish were different.
In Hindi
अफ़सोस। जिस बात की चाह है, उससे एक क़दम पीछे का काल।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
I wish I have more time. | I wish I had more time. "Wish" about now takes the past. |
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Close enough to be mixed up with this one. Knowing the difference is most of knowing either.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
wish / if only is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to conditionals & wishes. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
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