Timeline for Which one is correct: "wish I was here" or "wish I were here"?
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| Apr 6, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | user323578 | @RoaringFish A sentence can be grammatically correct but semantically meaningless. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously | |
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| Oct 18, 2012 at 17:44 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | This is not the same question, and should not have been closed. Whether the verb wish governs the past subjunctive is utterly different from whether the conjunction if governs the subjunctive, be it past or present. These are not at all the same thing. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:13 | comment | added | user21497 | A, standing in snowy Green Bay, WI, is pointing to a picture of sweltering Bali. He says to B, "I wish I were here" ("here" = "Bali"). It makes logical sense. It's perfectly grammatical. A could say "I wish I were there" ("there" = "Bali") and it would mean the same thing. Both the "was" and the "were" forms are considered correct by many native speakers. Not this one, though. "I wish I was here/there" is illiterate. It's a reading comprehension problem. But politics deems it acceptable, idiomatic English: "Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton, Old times there are not forgotten". YBYA! | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | Roaring Fish | If a sentence doesn't make sense, the sentence is inherently wrong so it is a grammatical problem. The whole point of a sentence is to communicate. If it doesn't do that it is a failure as a sentence. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 15:29 | comment | added | MetaEd | @RoaringFish Yes, but that's not a grammatical problem: the usage is not incorrect. At best, it's absurd. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:26 | comment | added | Roaring Fish | @Hugo~ think! If you wish you were here (and none of your examples say that...), then where are you? You can't be 'here' because then it would be real and not a wish. If you are not 'here', you don't exist... | |
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:22 | comment | added | Hugo | @RoaringFish: It does make sense. Dickens: "I wish I were going myself," said Charles Darnay, somewhat restlessly, and like one thinking aloud. Shakespeare: Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here he would use me with estimation. George Eliot: "I wish I were like you." Emily Dickinson: I wish I were the hay! Charlotte Bronte: I wish I were in a quiet island with only you Bram Stoker: I wish I were safe out of it | |
| S Sep 5, 2012 at 13:21 | history | suggested | Gigili | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:20 | answer | added | Gigili | timeline score: 6 | |
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| S Sep 5, 2012 at 13:13 | history | edited | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:09 | history | edited | Iman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:06 | comment | added | Roaring Fish | 'Wish I were here' makes no logical sense. Do you mean you have heard "wish you were here"? | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 13:03 | history | asked | Iman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |