Learn English Grammar: THE SUBJUNCTIVE - "I wish..."
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2013
- "I wish I were...". "He wishes it would...". Wishes are a part of everyday conversation among native English speakers. Are they all dreamers? Maybe. But most of the time, we use 'wish' to talk about something that isn't true or real, more than to talk about our fantasies. In this grammar lesson for advanced students, you'll learn the correct way to construct sentences using 'wish' and the subjunctive voice. You can also take a quiz on this lesson: www.engvid.com/wish-subjunctive/
I wish I had a teacher like him in my face-to-face classes.
Correction: "I wish I *were*..."
🙃Just kidding! Yes, he is a very good teacher!
I wish I could speak English fluently ✌️😄🙏🏻
I am also
Go and search in youtube,"super hot,ohhhhh!"my reply😎😎😎
Don't wish work for it
I hope I can speak English (fluency or not)
I wish I spoke, guy)
Thank you, Adam! The best explanation! I wish all teachers could explain the grammar rules like you.
"I wish all teachers could explain the grammar rules AS YOU DO."
Please contact me for more high-level grammar instruction- seriously, Bro.
I wish i could pass the exam
"Now, why? Because" - that was genius))
I have a friend that learns English and he always asks me about a lot of things. In 90% cases I'm just answering and can't explain, just because I don't remember rules.
Now I know what to say to him :D
Great lessons! Good explanations, everything is clear. Thank you Adam!
I wish I were rich.
I'm so sorry to hear that
sorry hopefully u become filthy rich
hehehehe amazing man
We wish we were richs !!
Subject and verb agreement???
Thank you so much for your clear and always comprehensible and useful lessons!!
That was an awesome class, teacher you're without a doubt a great teacher!
Thanks for sharing knowledge with us.
From Rio.
Adam yet another perfect explanation. Congratulations Adam for transmitting your teaching natural talent with us.
Thanks teacher , your accent is easy to understand for me, you are great teacher. May GOD bless you!
It's clear! 3.09- 4.40 whole picture! Thank you for "were", that it's correct! I wish you were a teacher in our country. I wish I were your student.
I wish I knew your English classes earlier, by now I had learned a great deal more.
Oh my Goodness! I've finally got this!!! Thank you!
You have been simply a wonderful teacher! No one can hold a candle to you!
I really like the way of you teaching, so simple and understandable. Thanks for these great videos.
Adam you are the best teacher I have ever seen.
I didn’t learn this grammar when i was younger, I wish I had learned it
I like the way you teach :-)
I actually I love this lesson. when I was at school my teacher did not emphasize so much on grammar and never taught about subjunctive. The tenses I discovered myself later on in life.
I wish you had taught us English when we were students. We would have learned so much and might have probably been fluent in speaking. You rock! Cheers!
woow this is amazing...thanks alot teacher..and I wish I could speak English like you
as a native english speaker from england, i can honestly say that 'I wish I WAS rich' and 'i wish i WERE rich' mean the same thing, in fact I would say that 'i wish i WERE rich' is less used as it seems like you're trying to be posh (rich) haha
You really teach tough subjects in an easy way. Thank you for your great explanation
Good Afternoon Adam, i`m beginner speaker, but i`m grateful with your links, because these are very important in my learning. Thank you sooooo much!!!! And pleaseee, continue teaching us. Blessings
Teacher Adam, thank you so much for one more interesting and inspiring class (Teacher André, from Brazil)
Can believe I found you here Andre! hahaha I was watching this video tonight! coll 8)
Estefani Oliveira Small world the one we live in. Miss you dear one. Drop by when around, ok? See ya :)
André Betti heey !!
This was the best explanation I have ever had I couldn't wish for anything better.
I wish I were a teacher like you.
Thank you so much for your clear explanation.
I think you are a really good teacher. I wish i could understand all what native speakers say
Adam I like you not only because you re a good teacher but also because you re sucj a respectful man! So classy through your simplicity!! I have a question: When we express wishes in the future! We sat simply (I wish I WOULD + stem) not (I wish I WOULD + have + pp) ?????
Amina TAHRI yes he is من اين انت
Amina TAHRI@ Subjunctive Wish cannot be followed by The past future perfect . Subjunctive wish is usually followed by Simple past/ past future and the past perfect. ex : i wish i had a car( simple past), i wish i would have a car ( past future), i wished i had had a car. The past future perfect is usually used for subjunctive if only and Conditional type III
Bac Nana I'm from Algeria
i wish usually use for past not for future.
Wish refers to the regrets. So use wish expression when you are regreting something
I wish you could read all comments, including mine.
Yes, you may say I'm dreamer... But I'm not the only one. ;)
you used right , things are not gonna happend
I wish you would not could
Thanks for your explanations. They are very clear and you are a good teacher, too.
So clear and concise! Just hit on the main point to clear the confusion. Thanks!
I noticed something important here
When you said "the Doctor recommended he go to the hospital"
Why go instead of goes?
I think in this case you are talking about third person.
I would like to know why go???
Please explain this to me
it´s because in this statement the verb "go" doesn´t mean present tense, it refers to an advice which is expressed like subjuntive mode "the doctor recommended " this is the phrase that expresses the advice" and afther this, the following verb is not conjugated, it goes in infinite without the particle "to" = "he go to the hospital"
Basically the present subjunctive in English is constructed using the infinitive of the verb dropping the "to"
You can say "goes" too, that's less "correct" but acceptable.
base form is required
I thinks that's because of to whom the doctor spoke to: "The doctor recommended he" I guess you'll also say "The doctor recommended him" which is a bit more formal than the first one.
Let me know if I'm wrong :)
Thanks Adam I enjoy your videos ..I wish I were a native English speaker..🤔
Thanks, Adam. Your lessons are so helpful.
God bless you. You are the best teacher that I have ever met.
Subjunctive is not a voice but one of the English moods.
Ok superman
after 7 years Bill Clinton his wish didn't come true ;p
You are amazing teacher I want to thank you for your help to english students!! I'm a student from Perú :) I always understand your classes !!
You explained the subject very clearly and beautifully. Thank you so much.
Why don you make a video with the negative and question forms of wish?
I don't wish I were rich.
I wish I weren't rich.
I wish it wouldn't rain.
Do you wish you were rich?
Do you wish you weren't rich?
Do you wish it would rain?
....are this sentences correct?
Thank you.
wish indicates definitely "did not happen"/"definitely "will not happen "...I think imagination can not ask question, that is why Adam did not make any video about question form of wish.....
তিতলী মিতু ......I disagree with you...The point he has mentioned makes sense
The subjunctive is a mood, not a voice. Active and passive are examples of voices, while indicative and subjunctive are examples of moods.
Adam, teacher, thank you for your class. I posted your video for my students in a online class for a public senior high school here in Mexico. Thank you for sharing.
It is very helpful. I was confused about this grammar but now I don't.
thank you man!
best regards.
I wish I had the balls to propose my crush😁😊
You know what they say, you only live once. xD
Классные уроки , Спасибо Адам =)
Thank you for such lessons. You have terrific teaching skills.
I understand every word you pronounce.It makes me happy.THANK YOU!
I'm not sure your example "Bill Clinton wishes Hillary Clinton would be President." is correct. I think it would be better to say "Bill Clinton wishes Hillary Clinton were President." or use "would become." I have covered this topic in my videos. Feel free to have a look.
Adam is an English teacher, he's a native speaker. But I suppose Jeremy to be correct. Where are you, Adam? I AM CONFUSED.
+Jeremy English Jeremy, you're still using the same wish-for-the-future construction when you say "would become." Adam used "would be" because he is focusing on the subjunctive forms of the verb "to be." However, you are probably correct that the more appropriate verb is "become" rather than "be" in that example.
+Lee Cox State in wish forms is represented by the past tense. I wish I was etc. Thank you :)
Jeremy English Actually, it's "I wish I WERE." That's the whole point of this video -- using the past subjunctive to deal with contrary-to-fact wishes. Such wishes for the present always require the past subjunctive ("were," in this case, or simple past in the case of other verbs -- only "to be" still has a distinctive past subjunctive form); contrary-to-fact wishes for the past always require the past perfect subjunctive ("had" plus the main verb); and wishes for the future (which may or may not turn out to be true) take what might be called the conditional ("would" plus the main verb), although this construction is admittedly not common. In practice, English actually seems to avoid using the "wish/would" construction to refer to future events -- it really seems to prefer to use the verb "hope" and either the present or the future indicative ("Bill Clinton hopes that Hillary becomes [or will become] President.")
"Be" is not an action verb, that's why it cannot be used correctly with wish + would
Anyone else find it suspicious that he talks about Hillary Clinton as president, when this video was posted in early 2013!!?!!?!!???
Illuminati...
Democrat detected!
I don't think so. It's recommended to English teachers to always try to mention famous people like actors, singers, players, politicians, etc when they give examples.
Clear and to the point. Thanks Adam!
Great video! Really described the subjuntive verbs clearly! tnx💗
Don't believe this guy." I wish I was rich." is right. If you say "WERE" you just emphasise the situation is imaginary.
+June Lee WRONG. "I wish I were rich" is always correct, because the situation is always going to be imaginary or contrary-to-fact. "Was" is called the indicative mood for a reason -- because it always INDICATES what is fact, not imagination or a hypothetical situation.
Both are grammatically correct because in modern English, the only thing needed to express a counterfactual situation is a past tense verb.
If I was you = I'm not you,
just as,
If I were you = I'm not you.
It works the same way with 'wish'.
June Lee It may be grammatically acceptable in informal English, but that does not mean that it is grammatically correct.
The problem with the subjunctive in Modern English is that there are very few distinctive subjunctive forms left -- only "to be" has distinctive subjunctive forms in both the present and past tenses, and other verbs only have distinctive subjunctive forms in the third person singular of the present tense. But just because true subjunctive forms are rare in Modern English, that doesn't mean that we should just ignore the ones that do exist because it's easier.
The majority of viewers on this channel are learning English as a second language, and deserve to have it taught correctly the first time. Why would you deliberately confuse them by directly contradicting the rules that Adam and I have set forth in the video and in this discussion thread?
+Lee Cox I just want to say that you are misinforming your audience by taking a prescriptivist standpoint. ESL students will take your lesson to heart and when they hear a native speaker use 'was' instead of 'were' they'll wonder why. It would be a good idea to add a little footnote that 'was' is informal and that students will hear it out in the real world.
June Lee So they'll learn to speak English better than many native speakers do. Why is that a bad thing? :-)
Thanks Professor. I'm from Brasil and I always watch your videos, good job !
I'm gonna teach 'Wish" today.soI should be thankful of you !
You are a perfect teacher👏🏻 thank you so much👍 I wish I knew you sooner
thank you for making the lesson simple now it's easy for me to talk about wishes in past present and future you are an excellent teacher
Languages (especially English) are changing very very quickly, so it is difficult to establish which is the most natural/correct way of expressing something. On the other hand, examiners seem stuck in the traditional ways, maybe for the sake of some uniformity... Having said that, I think Adam does a great job indicating foreign students what is still the standard approach to the language and what they may encounter in the official exams. In my opinion, it's most desirable to keep an open and democratic mind when it comes to languages, but we also have to be practical sometimes.
I love the way you teach a lot!! I wish you were my teacher
Thank you Adam, very useful lesson!!! :D
the simplest explanation for wish verb I found ☺
I wish I found you earlier . Thanks a million!!
Excellent class teacher ! Thank you for the explanation ! I've got it !
Clear and correct! Perfect!
I'm italian mother tongue and the subjunctive mood, although it has been recently replaced by the indicative, it's often used amongst italian speakers. Despite his grammatical structure shown in this video, the italian Subjunctive mood - both present and past either - is much more complex than english or french one and i'm aware foreign people who're trying to learn our tongue could be find themselves in trouble. That's why english is more studied than other languages, because for his simplicity and pragmatic attitude.
The problem with us native speakers is that we are apathetic and lazy with grammar. To learn another language is to actually learn English grammar because, in American schools, there are no true grammar classes in the required courses. I learned so much about English grammar when I began learning German, Spanish, and Latin. To have videos like this is really helpful: things that are not explained explicitly in other English classes are being taught well by those who learned and are learning English. Kudos to this channel.
Thanks a lot for the very interesting and usefull lessons Adam!!!
I really like your teacher mode to teach.. So clarified explanation. Thank you so much
You are the best teacher! I finally understand this!
Thank you, sir.
Thank you Mr Adam. Your lesson help me so much.😇 🙏🏻 🤘
Can I say that I wish " I had so much money or I've had so much money but in reality I didn't have nothing?
I can't thank you enough for your positive helping!.
I'm just speechless.
I wish I had is correct.
Thank u sir Adam! It's very useful :) I'm not good in english, but when i saw your video lessons here i think a lot of lesson i've got from you. So Big thanks sir!
My forthcoming examination will be also testing this! Good that I've watched your lesson! :)
I wish I were able to say I learned this in school. Sadly I wasn't blessed with a teacher who explained it this well. ( I wish you were here to give me feedback.) Thank you for your helpful video.
Thank you, I'm liking this Chanel. I'm brasilian and am learning to speak English!!
Fine lesson. Nothing confusing for me. I like grammar, moreover there's "one tense back" in my language too(similar). Życzę (present) ci, żebyś był(past) bogaty. - I wish you were rich.
Adam you’re best teacher ever I want improve my English
I like your way of teaching thanks for your help and God bless you
Спасибо) это очень интересно, даже все понятно без словаря.
You make it easy!
Thanks Adam.
I wish I WERE a better student 😅
Thank you very much! 2.56 "It's two pasts back:."= Два шага назад в прошлое. Ещё дальше в прошлое. Да, тоже говорю:"Более прошлое время, показывая, что остаётся за спиной." It's two steps back, more further in past. Yes! I'm so say about that , this is more past tense = Past Perfect Tense.
Thank you very much for subtitles!! IT's rare thing :)
he's great! great teacher great explanation! very well done!
I'm relieved that there are videos on CZcams explaining that "if I were" is correct and used in unrealistic situations. Recently my English teacher encircled the word "were" on my mock exam even though it was right; and I always hear her say "if I was".
Hey, Sir.I'm very grateful to you for this fruitful lesson.
Thanks from Argentina
Adam you are a great teacher.
My English has improved far from the point where I had started by watching your videos and studying it.
Regards
Vladimir from Russia.
Your explaining is very understandable. Thanks a bunch.
As always, you are very, very clear. I wish I were be able to speak English like you!!
I wish I were able. I wish I "were be able" is not correct.
Thanks, Adam! You're the best.
Adam, you are great!!!! That's So easy now... Tks a lot!!!
This part about going one tense back is what I couldn't understand in highschool. It doesn't sound hard anymore but I'm also 5 years older now and I had a lot of opportunities to use English since then.
You're an amazing teacher ❤️ lots of respect from Pakistan
Teacher Adam, you're a fantastic teacher. In Peru the teachers are boring but when I enter in you youtube channel I learn new things, thank you.
This was a great explanation, Adam. Thanks!
I already knew it but ı just wanted to watch it cuz your videos are so good 🙏
greatest teacher ever! I love your videos!
You know I am a dreamer too, but not the only one.I wish you were my teacher.
Adam you're the best teacher ever!
I wish I were ur student, I wish I were a teacher like u!! I wish I could speak English as fluent as you do..