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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

I wish I should have been willing to be able to do it.

Hey everyone,

My question is: is this sentence grammatically correct 'I wish I should have been willing to be able to do it?' If it is not correct, would be great if you could say what is missing/should be changed.

Many thanks,

J xx
  

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' You got way too complicated with this sentence which made it unclear as to what you really wanted to say. " didn't you? ".

  • ' You got way too complicated with this sentence which made it unclear as to what you really wanted to say.
  • " didn't you?
  • ".
  • In short, you had too many words in the sentence that you don't need from my standpoint.
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Anonymous'I wish I should have been willing to be able to do it?'
You got way too complicated with this sentence which made it unclear as to what you really wanted to say.

If I am guessing correctly, you wanted to say " I wish I was able to do it?" didn't you?

You have a subjunctive sentence with " I wish" which doesn't seem to work with "I s

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