conditional sentences difference meaning

[duiter]

Hi,

What the difference meaning of these sentence :

I wish they would offer me a pay rise

I would rather they offered me a pay rise

I I wish they offered me a pay rise

I wish to get a pay rise


Thanks

[BobK]

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I wish they would offer me a pay rise
I wish they would. I would like it to happen.

I would rather they offered me a pay rise
They did something else - say, offered to increase the number of holidays. But I would prefer it if instead - in the ongoing* negotiations - they would offer me a pay rise.

I wish they offered me a pay rise
If someone said this, I would assume either that they didn't feel comfortable using the past perfect (which some people don't in speech, feeling that it marks them out as 'posh'**) or that they came from a part of the world whose version of English doesn't require it. I would say 'I wish they HAD offered me a pay rise' (with the obvious meaning).

I wish to get a pay rise
That's what I want.

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* In some Englishes, this would be acceptable as meaning
'I would rather they HAD offered me a pay rise', but not in standard Br English.

b

PS*** In the song, the commonly cited words (more than 20 times as common) are 'If I knew you were coming I'da baked a cake', but - for example - emsr2d2 (in another thread) gave a 'sanitized' version with the past perfect.

[shoaib 1]

Hi,

What the difference meaning of these sentence :

I wish they would offer me a pay rise

I would rather they offered me a pay rise

I I wish they offered me a pay rise

I wish to get a pay rise


Thanks

There can be another sentence:
"I wish that they offer me a pay rise".
I think when we say "I wish they(had) offered me ........", there is very little chance that 'they' will offer a pay rise.
Well, not a native.

[emsr2d2]

There can be another sentence:
"I wish that they offer me a pay rise".
I think when we say "I wish they(had) offered me ........", there is very little chance that 'they' will offer a pay rise.
Well, not a native.

If you're talking about the future, I would be more inclined to say "I hope" than "I wish".

I wish they would offer me a pay rise.
I hope they will offer me a pay rise.