Correction: "I wish I *were*..." 🙃Just kidding! Yes, he is a very good teacher!

I am also

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Don't wish work for it

I hope I can speak English (fluency or not)

I wish I spoke, guy)

"I wish all teachers could explain the grammar rules AS YOU DO." Please contact me for more high-level grammar instruction- seriously, Bro.

I'm so sorry to hear that

sorry hopefully u become filthy rich

hehehehe amazing man

We wish we were richs !!

Subject and verb agreement???

Can believe I found you here Andre! hahaha I was watching this video tonight! coll 8)

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André Betti heey !!

Amina TAHRI yes he is من اين انت

Amina TAHRI@ Subjunctive Wish cannot be followed by The past future perfect . Subjunctive wish is usually followed by Simple past/ past future and the past perfect. ex : i wish i had a car( simple past), i wish i would have a car ( past future), i wished i had had a car. The past future perfect is usually used for subjunctive if only and Conditional type III

Bac Nana I'm from Algeria

i wish usually use for past not for future.

Wish refers to the regrets. So use wish expression when you are regreting something

you used right , things are not gonna happend

I wish you would not could

it´s because in this statement the verb "go" doesn´t mean present tense, it refers to an advice which is expressed like subjuntive mode "the doctor recommended " this is the phrase that expresses the advice" and afther this, the following verb is not conjugated, it goes in infinite without the particle "to" = "he go to the hospital"

Basically the present subjunctive in English is constructed using the infinitive of the verb dropping the "to"

You can say "goes" too, that's less "correct" but acceptable.

base form is required

I thinks that's because of to whom the doctor spoke to: "The doctor recommended he" I guess you'll also say "The doctor recommended him" which is a bit more formal than the first one. Let me know if I'm wrong :)

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You know what they say, you only live once. xD

wish indicates definitely "did not happen"/"definitely "will not happen "...I think imagination can not ask question, that is why Adam did not make any video about question form of wish.....

তিতলী মিতু ......I disagree with you...The point he has mentioned makes sense

Adam is an English teacher, he's a native speaker. But I suppose Jeremy to be correct. Where are you, Adam? I AM CONFUSED.

+Jeremy English Jeremy, you're still using the same wish-for-the-future construction when you say "would become." Adam used "would be" because he is focusing on the subjunctive forms of the verb "to be." However, you are probably correct that the more appropriate verb is "become" rather than "be" in that example.

+Lee Cox State in wish forms is represented by the past tense. I wish I was etc. Thank you :)

Jeremy English Actually, it's "I wish I WERE." That's the whole point of this video -- using the past subjunctive to deal with contrary-to-fact wishes. Such wishes for the present always require the past subjunctive ("were," in this case, or simple past in the case of other verbs -- only "to be" still has a distinctive past subjunctive form); contrary-to-fact wishes for the past always require the past perfect subjunctive ("had" plus the main verb); and wishes for the future (which may or may not turn out to be true) take what might be called the conditional ("would" plus the main verb), although this construction is admittedly not common. In practice, English actually seems to avoid using the "wish/would" construction to refer to future events -- it really seems to prefer to use the verb "hope" and either the present or the future indicative ("Bill Clinton hopes that Hillary becomes [or will become] President.")

"Be" is not an action verb, that's why it cannot be used correctly with wish + would

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I don't think so. It's recommended to English teachers to always try to mention famous people like actors, singers, players, politicians, etc when they give examples.

+June Lee WRONG. "I wish I were rich" is always correct, because the situation is always going to be imaginary or contrary-to-fact. "Was" is called the indicative mood for a reason -- because it always INDICATES what is fact, not imagination or a hypothetical situation.

Both are grammatically correct because in modern English, the only thing needed to express a counterfactual situation is a past tense verb. If I was you = I'm not you, just as, If I were you = I'm not you. It works the same way with 'wish'.

June Lee It may be grammatically acceptable in informal English, but that does not mean that it is grammatically correct. The problem with the subjunctive in Modern English is that there are very few distinctive subjunctive forms left -- only "to be" has distinctive subjunctive forms in both the present and past tenses, and other verbs only have distinctive subjunctive forms in the third person singular of the present tense. But just because true subjunctive forms are rare in Modern English, that doesn't mean that we should just ignore the ones that do exist because it's easier. The majority of viewers on this channel are learning English as a second language, and deserve to have it taught correctly the first time. Why would you deliberately confuse them by directly contradicting the rules that Adam and I have set forth in the video and in this discussion thread?

+Lee Cox I just want to say that you are misinforming your audience by taking a prescriptivist standpoint. ESL students will take your lesson to heart and when they hear a native speaker use 'was' instead of 'were' they'll wonder why. It would be a good idea to add a little footnote that 'was' is informal and that students will hear it out in the real world.

June Lee So they'll learn to speak English better than many native speakers do. Why is that a bad thing? :-)

I wish I had is correct.