Timeline for What is the grammatically correct way to say "if only"?
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| Feb 1, 2018 at 22:14 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jun 2, 2017 at 17:41 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Just the words "If only." are used as a slang complete sentence. It's used as a confirming response to a statement, meaning "If that was the case, then surely"; the same sense you're talking about here. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | 1006a | As the answers suggest, your second example doesn't work; however, there is one other idiomatic way of saying this: If I only had time to eat health(il)y, as in the Wizard of Oz classic song(s), If I only had (a brain/a heart/the nerve). | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 15:16 | vote | accept | Morty C | ||
| Jun 2, 2017 at 15:13 | answer | added | Roger Sinasohn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 15:11 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 15:08 | history | edited | Roger Sinasohn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2017 at 14:56 | history | asked | Morty C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |