wish * would – English Grammar Profiler

The verb ‘wish’ is in the English Vocabulary Profile at B1 with the meaning:

to want a situation that is different from the one that exists

There is no other entry using it with ‘would’.  But there is mention in the English Grammar Profile of using ‘wish’ with past forms.  ‘would’ can be considered as a past form of will, or as a subjunctive.

For example:

I just wish someone would do as much for me.

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A search in iWeb for:

WISH * would *

1 WISH I WOULD HAVE 7830 2 WISH THEY WOULD HAVE 1418 3 WISH WE WOULD HAVE 860 4 WISH YOU WOULD HAVE 743 5 WISH I WOULD ‘VE 596 6 WISH THEY WOULD MAKE 505 7 WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP 474 8 WISH IT WOULD HAVE 432

9 WISH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE 431

10 WISH THEY WOULD JUST 356 11 WISH HE WOULD HAVE 350 12 WISH THEY WOULD DO 329 13 WISH I WOULD OF 327

14 WISH THEY WOULD BRING 321

15 WISHED I WOULD HAVE 315 16 WISH IT WOULD BE 274 17 WISH THEY WOULD STOP 226 18 WISH THERE WOULD BE 225

19 WISH THEY WOULD N’T 219

WISH * would * *

1 WISH I WOULD HAVE KNOWN 933 2 WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD 576 3 WISH I WOULD HAVE DONE 533 4 WISH I WOULD HAVE FOUND 409 5 WISH I WOULD HAVE READ 317 6 WISH I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT 286 7 WISH I WOULD HAVE TAKEN 270 8 WISH I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT 262 9 WISH I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN 254 10 WISH I WOULD HAVE SEEN 245 11 WISH I WOULD HAVE BEEN 238

12 WISH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TOLD 181

13 WISH I WOULD HAVE STARTED 156 14 WISH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 146 15 WISH I WOULD HAVE GONE 145 16 WISH THEY WOULD MAKE A 143 17 WISH WE WOULD HAVE HAD 137 18 WISH I WOULD N’T HAVE 129

19 WISH I WOULD HAVE JUST 123

20 WISH I WOULD HAVE ORDERED 115

A2 vocabulary:

bring, just, ordered, someone