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Dominik Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

I wish ...

Please stop complaining all the time.

I wish you stopped complaining all the time.
I wish you would complaining all the time.

Are the last two sentences correct and mean the same as the first sentence?

Thanks!
  

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I wish you would stop complaining all the time. If you are talking past tense, you could say something like: I wish you had stopped complaining so much. ["all the time" doesn't sound right in past tense]

— Free_spirit

  • I wish you would stop complaining all the time.
  • If you are talking past tense, you could say something like: I wish you had stopped complaining so much.
  • ["all the time" doesn't sound right in past tense]
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I wish you would stop complaining all the time.

If you are talking past tense, you could say something like:

I wish you had stopped complaining so much. ["all the time" doesn't sound right in past tense]
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Thank you for your clarificatin.

I have one more doubt:

Should it be
I'd rather have dinner at home tonight.
or
I'd rather we had dinner at home tonight.

Thanks!
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Both have a slightly different meaning.

I'd rather have dinner at home tonight. - speaks for you alone

I'd rather we had dinner at home tonight. - 'we' means you are suggesting that you and someone else (or multiple people) have dinner at home.
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free_spirit"All the time" doesn't sound right in past tense.
I wish you had stopped complaining all the time.
You used to complain all the time.
You complained all the time before we got married.
You would complain frequently before finally giving up.

Sounds fine to me.
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