This sentence pertains to a movie I watched:
- I wish I watched it with subtitles.
- I wish I had watched it with subtitles.
What effect does adding had have on the sentence? Are both sentences correct? Is one form preferred over the other?
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Sign up to join this communityThis sentence pertains to a movie I watched:
What effect does adding had have on the sentence? Are both sentences correct? Is one form preferred over the other?
The first example is often used in informal speech.
However, I did not actually watch it with subtitles. Therefore a suggestion that I should have calls for a subjunctive construction.
The second is the preferred grammatical construct, the pluperfect subjunctive.