Grammar for dream

Yes. What do you imagine could be wrong with it?

Mister MicawberYes. What do you imagine could be wrong with it?

Just in case Anon won't come back to answer the question, I'll **** in, if you don't mind. Idiomatic usage and expressions vary from language to language. In this particular case, for example, a verbatim translation from English into my native language Finnish would be wrong. In Finnish one cann

Someone told me that dream should be changed to past tense (dreamt). I dreamt last night.

Ah. No. 'Had', not 'saw', is the natural English and 'dreamt' is wrong unless followed by an explanatory object: 'I dreamt that I was Queen of Israel last night'.

Okay, I understand now.

Mister MicawberAh. No. 'Had', not 'saw', is the natural English and 'dreamt' is wrong unless followed by an explanatory object: 'I dreamt that I was Queen of Israel last night'.

But having said that, there is nothing at all wrong with saying "I had a dream last night that [or "in which"] I was the Queen of Israel." That is also perfectly correct.

Saying "Last night I dreamed that I was the Queen of Israel" should be acceptable too. I read that dreamt is mostly used with British English.

AnonymousSaying "Last night I dreamed that I was the Queen of Israel" should be acceptable too.

It is.