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I wish I was happy and healthy.
"I wish I WERE..." Thee! Don't forget the subjunctive! and I wish you were happy and healthy as well!
For the record, that always bothered me. Thee wouldn't say, "I were happy yesterday."
I wish the english language made more sense.
It does; the subjunctive is conditional. "I was" is definitive. "If I were happier yesterday, today wouldn't be so depressing," for example. It can even take a past compound subjunctive: "If I had been happy..."
One day I might understand all that. . . . .
I wish I hadn't added "and healthy" so hastily to that sentence...
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If I had taken the time to construct that sentence properly, instead of hastily tacking two words onto the end of it at the last second before posting it, there wouldn't have been the added discussion about how I messed it up.
Thanks for the explanation, but you still would have missed the subjunctive. And I like to tease people about the subjunctive. So don't take it seriously, Thee, the subjunctive is largely ignored in modern American English.
Thanks for the explanation, but you still would have missed the subjunctive. And I like to tease people about the subjunctive. So don't take it seriously, Thee, the subjunctive is largely ignored in modern American English.
I'm still wishing people wouldn't argue. Teach me the right way, then make me remember. Oh, that's a really big wish.
I wish that I hadn't submitted this pointless post.
I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller,
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a six-four impala
"I wish I WERE..." Thee! Don't forget the subjunctive! and I wish you were happy and healthy as well!
If so, I feel this nineties rap classic belongs here:
When I sing songs with if statements, I always change the "was" to "were."
If so, I feel this nineties rap classic belongs here:
When I sing songs with if statements, I always change the "was" to "were."
I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener.