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Conditionals & wishes · CEFR B2 · Confident
Wish plus would is a complaint about somebody else's behaviour, not a wish about a fact. It cannot be used about yourself.
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I wish I were taller.
wish + subject + would + plain verb
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Example 1 of 1
I wish I were taller.
You cannot complain about your own behaviour this way — a fact about yourself takes "were".
The shape
wish + subject + would + plain verb
Complain about something somebody keeps doing.
In Hindi
wish के साथ would किसी और के व्यवहार की शिकायत है — अपने बारे में यह नहीं चलता।
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The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
I wish I would be taller. | I wish I were taller. You cannot complain about your own behaviour this way — a fact about yourself takes "were". |
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
I wish you would… 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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