Wish/If only

Wish/If only

Review

Presentation

• Watch the following YouTube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1aEVTBMrOY

Rules:

• Wish/if only + past simple --> Present situation the speaker is unhappy about.

• Wish/if only + past perfect --> Regret about the past.

• Wish/if only + could/would + verb in base form --> To express a wish for the future.

Remember:

• In the past we use WERE for all the forms of the verb to be (although in everyday conversation you may hear WAS).

• We normally use could when the subject is I or WE.

Practice

Let's check!

Multiple Choice

I wish I could fly.

• wish 
• regret

Multiple Choice

I wish I were a doctor

• wish

• regret

Multiple Choice

If only I travelled to New York.

• wish

• regret

Multiple Choice

If only she had seen the doctor earlier. He could have saved her.

• wish

• regret

Multiple Choice

I am sorry I don’t know how to use the new computer. If only I (know)______ how to use it.

• knew

• known

Multiple Choice

He was running very fast when he had a heart attack. If only he (not/run) ________so fast.

• didn't run
• hadn't run

Multiple Choice

Tom likes football very much. He wishes he (become)_________a professional football player.

• became
• had became

Multiple Choice

Alice didn't get a good grade. She wishes she (work) _______harder.

• worked
• had worked