{"id":645,"date":"2015-04-22T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2015-04-22T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T17:55:24","slug":"express-regret-using-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/express-regret-using-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Express regret using wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often use <strong>wish<\/strong> to express regret that things are not different. In this case, wish is followed by a <strong>that-clause<\/strong>. Note that \u2018that\u2019 is often dropped in an informal style.<\/p>\n<p>When we use<strong> wish<\/strong> to talk about unreal or impossible situations, we use past tenses.<\/p>\n<p>Study the example given below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am not good looking (and I am unhappy about it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can express my regret using <strong>\u2018wish\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was I was better looking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rewrite the following sentences using wish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I can\u2019t fly.<\/p>\n<p>2. I can\u2019t speak French.<\/p>\n<p>3. Tomorrow is not Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>4. I am not handsome.<\/p>\n<p>5. I hardly ever get letters.<\/p>\n<p>6. It is raining.<\/p>\n<p>7. I don\u2019t know the truth.<\/p>\n<p>8. I called him a fool.<\/p>\n<p>9. I have lost my bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>10. Anu is not here.<\/p>\n<p>11. I can\u2019t afford a bigger home.<\/p>\n<p>12. I don\u2019t have the key.<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. I wish I could fly.<\/p>\n<p>2. I wish I could speak French.<\/p>\n<p>3. I wish tomorrow was Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>4. I wish I were handsome.<\/p>\n<p>5. I wish I got more letters.<\/p>\n<p>6. I wish it wasn\u2019t raining.<\/p>\n<p>7. I wish I knew the truth.<\/p>\n<p>8. I wish I hadn\u2019t called him a fool.<\/p>\n<p>9. I wish I hadn\u2019t lost my bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>10. I wish Anu was here.<\/p>\n<p>11. I wish I could afford a bigger home.<\/p>\n<p>12. I wish I had the key.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often use wish to express regret that things are not different. In this case, wish is followed by a that-clause. Note that \u2018that\u2019 is often dropped in an informal style. When we use&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-wish-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}