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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Is that a correct sentence

I wish I would be as lucky as you
  

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I wish I was as lucky as you.

  • I wish I was as lucky as you.
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I wish I was as lucky as you.
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This is a subjunctive construction, and the correct sentences are these:

"I wish I was/were as lucky as you" - You're talking about something unreal or imaginary, i.e. you are never that lucky as him.

"I wish I had been as lucky as you" - You're taking about something that happened in the past but you'd prefer a different course of events. For example, your friend escaped some

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