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    This document discusses the use of "wish" and "if only" to express regret over past or present situations. It provides examples of using "wish" with subjects and verbs in different tenses, including wishing something was different now or had been different in the past. It also gives examples of using "if only" with subjects and verbs in the past simple or past perfect tense to express regret over hypothetical alternative past situations.

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    This document discusses the use of "wish" and "if only" to express regret over past or present situations. It provides examples of using "wish" with subjects and verbs in different tenses, including wishing something was different now or had been different in the past. It also gives examples of using "if only" with subjects and verbs in the past simple or past perfect tense to express regret over hypothetical alternative past situations.

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    This document discusses the use of "wish" and "if only" to express regret over past or present situations. It provides examples of using "wish" with subjects and verbs in different tenses, including wishing something was different now or had been different in the past. It also gives examples of using "if only" with subjects and verbs in the past simple or past perfect tense to express regret over hypothetical alternative past situations.

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    WISH/ IF ONLY

    1. SJ+wish/es/ed+SJ+vb. Past
    simple
    They wish they didn’t shout so
    much.
    Mary wishes she were taller.
    2. suj.1/2+wish/es/ed+
    suj.1/2+vb. Past perfect
    I wish I had read more when I
    was a child.
    My parents wish we had read
    more when we were children.
    3. S1+wish/es/ed+ s2+would+raíz
    My sister wishes I wouldn’t
    smoke so much.
    S1+wish/es/ed+S2+past simple
    She wishes they came
    tomorrow.
    If only
    1. If only+suj+vb. Past simple
    If only he phoned tonight.
    I wish he phoned tonight.
    2. If only+suj+past perfect
    If only he had phoned last
    night.
    I wish he had phoned last
    night.

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