Timeline for Can the verb "wish + that clause" express open possibility?
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | langtechie | @coleopterist Because of the lack of (enough) evidence supporting wish + that clause with normal tense (the kind of tense that I hope that... uses) in grammar/usage books, in Google Books and COCA search, from others here, and from the web. That's what my question is about, and I think I got the answer. By the way, I didn't downvote you, in case you wondered. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 13:49 | comment | added | coleopterist | @langtechie Why exactly is that? While the sentences don't flow naturally, I attribute that more to lack of use than grammatical incoherence. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 8:26 | comment | added | langtechie | @coleopterist Thanks for this answer. Indeed, as others have pointed out, will (a modal verb usually used for open possibilities) cannot be used in the wish + that clause construction, which always expresses unlikelihood. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 14:00 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | No, because of what Tim said. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 13:55 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Sorry, the edit doesn't help. Wish + will is unidiomatic/objectionable, whatever goes with it. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 13:52 | history | edited | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Make one of the sentences "sound" less objectionable :)
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| Jul 30, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | coleopterist | @tchrist ... because you would use hope in both of those cases? | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I actually don’t find those examples grammatical. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 13:27 | history | answered | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |