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I Talking Wishes Something/Someone Infinitive Show Happen Change

Front Wishes 2
Back We use
"wish + something/someone + would + infinitive without to"
to show that we want something to happen or someone to change their behavior.

We do not use this with state verbs.

I wish they would stop talking so loudly! (=they are talking louadly and I want them to stop).

I wish this holiday would go on forever.

Tags: english, grammar

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