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Question 91

Select all sentences that use a standard form of wish for the same unreal present state.

  1. I wish the reading room was quieter at lunchtime.Correct answer
  2. I wish the reading room were quieter at lunchtime.Correct answer
  3. I wish the reading room is quieter at lunchtime.
  4. I wish I would be quieter by nature when I work there.

Explanation

Both was and were are standard after wish with a singular subject, although were is more formal. Is leaves the state factual rather than unreal, and wish I would be wrongly uses would for the speaker's own state.

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