表示将来的愿望

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This is Everyday Grammar. I'm Kaveh.

And I'm Lucija. Is there something you can't do, but you wish you could?

Do you know of something that will not happen tomorrow, but you wish it would? This is fun!

How about this one: Are there things you don't know, but you wish you knew? How about just wishing to know the correct way to use the verb WISH?

That might be wishful thinking! But let's try!

English speakers use the verb WISH to express the desire for something that seems difficult to get. They generally use WISH before a noun clause-a group of words with a subject and a predicate.

Speakers make wishes about the future, present, and past. Let's look at a statement about the future.

Tom can't come to the office tomorrow. How would this statement change if the speaker were to express a wish about Tom?

I wish Tom could come to the office tomorrow. Here the speaker is actually expressing this pleasure that Tom will not be at the office.

They want Tom at the office. It'sn strange, but even though the speaker is expressing a WISH about the future, they're using past tense-in this case COULD, the past tense of the modal verb CAN.

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