Wish Clauses (Present)
... wish(es) + subject + past simple
We use past simple to express our wishes or regrets for the present.
Examples:
I wish you were here .
Deniz wishes she were a lawyer.
I wish you a Merry Christmast.
I wish you were a fish on my dish.
If only I could get my driving licence.
Rewrite making wishes
Eg.I can’t play basketball.I am too short.
*I wish could play basketball or I wish I weren’t short.
I don’t know how to dive.
*If only I knew how to dive.
1-I can’t swim.
I wish
2- Feri is not rich.
She wishes she
3-Mom doesn’t know Judo.
4-I am not happy.
I wish I
5-You are not a gentleman.
I wish you
6-Betty is short.
She wishes
7-Lina hates me.
I wish she
8-I miss my hometown.(be there)
If only I there.
9-Jose can’t speak Turkish.
He wishes he
10-Our car is too small.
We wish it
11-I can’t speak Russian.
How I wish
12-I don’t know her address.
If only I
13-I am ugly.(not)
14-My wife doesn’t know how to cook.
15-I don’t have a GF.
16- Berk can’t drive a car.
17-Sinem can’t go to cinema with her friends.
18-Angela hates me.(love)
If only she me.
19-I admire Charlize Theron so much.(meet)
How I wish I her.
20-Göksu doesn’t have a driving licence.
21-I can’t go out after 8.
22-Alan doesn’t live in Italy
23-I don’t have a raincoat.It is raining.
24-Görkem loves taking photos.(have a good camera)
25-Elaine is overweight.(slender)
26-I don’t have any money.
27- My sister wants to earn her life.
28- You are not here.
29-Oleg is 79.(younger)
30- The little boy feels homesick.(at home)
31-I don’t have a ticket to the GS-FB derby.
