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Tiểu Cầm Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

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Q:I wish the neighbors_____making so much noise
A.would stop
B.will stop
C.stopping
D.stopped
I choose D but the correction is A. I don't understand. Please explain it to me. Thanks
  

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m Would Would is used when the speaker wants somebody or something else to change, or to describe an annoying habit. I wish he would stop smoking. I wish it would stop raining.

— Yoong Liat

  • m Would Would is used when the speaker wants somebody or something else to change, or to describe an annoying habit.
  • I wish he would stop smoking.
  • I wish it would stop raining.
  • I wish you wouldn’t make such a mess.
  • I hope this is good enough.
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Hi Ti?u C?m
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Would is used when the speaker wants somebody or something else to change, or to describe an annoying habit.

I wish he would stop smoking.
I wish it would stop raining.
I wish you wouldn’t make such a mess.

I hope this is good enough.
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I see it. But what's wrong with D? I think it's possible, too.
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Present/Future time

The verb to wish is followed by an unreal past tense when we want to talk about situations in the present that we are not happy about and would want to change a present/future state.

I wish I had a motorbike. (I don’t have one now.)
I wish you weren’t leaving. (You are leaving.)

Would is used when the speaker wants somebody or someth
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I wish the neighbors would stop making so much noise. (but they won't.)
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