TimEndeavours
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Dear all, I have wrote a few sentences to test out whether I am understand the correct usage of wish and hope or not. Please kindly help me to check my sentences:
1. I wish tomorrow were going to be a rainy day as I do not wish to go to the camp. (100% sure that tomorrow is going to be Sunny)
2. I hope tomorrow is going to be a rainy day. (the weather report is not so accurate, therefore there is a possibility that tomorrow would really be rainy. As I cannot be sure that tomorrow is not a rainy day, I must not use "wish" since "wish" is applied when one is certain about one thing and the person wants the certain thing to be different)
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3. I wish I had worked harder in the past.
4. I wish the boy would stop screaming out loud when he is playing the computer games.
5. I hope you can join our trip. ( I was told that we should use "hope + can/will/are able to/is able to" to talk about the things you just want to happen but not to be different in the future.)
6. I hope you could join our trip. ( Is this correct, however? If so, would it be even more polite then the previous one? Would it also be more uncertain than the number 5 sentence?)
When it comes to "wish + would" and "wish + past tense + bare infinitive", I am not quite certain when to use which, particularly for the first combination. Could you please also explain it to me?
Thank you so much for your helping hands!
1. I wish tomorrow were going to be a rainy day as I do not wish to go to the camp. (100% sure that tomorrow is going to be Sunny)
2. I hope tomorrow is going to be a rainy day. (the weather report is not so accurate, therefore there is a possibility that tomorrow would really be rainy. As I cannot be sure that tomorrow is not a rainy day, I must not use "wish" since "wish" is applied when one is certain about one thing and the person wants the certain thing to be different)
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3. I wish I had worked harder in the past.
4. I wish the boy would stop screaming out loud when he is playing the computer games.
5. I hope you can join our trip. ( I was told that we should use "hope + can/will/are able to/is able to" to talk about the things you just want to happen but not to be different in the future.)
6. I hope you could join our trip. ( Is this correct, however? If so, would it be even more polite then the previous one? Would it also be more uncertain than the number 5 sentence?)
When it comes to "wish + would" and "wish + past tense + bare infinitive", I am not quite certain when to use which, particularly for the first combination. Could you please also explain it to me?
Thank you so much for your helping hands!