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Mango paint 954 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

She wishes?

Hello friends!

1. She wishes her parents would live nearer.

2. She wishes her parents lived nearer.

Which one is correct?

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mango paint 954 Which one is correct? They are both correct, but I think you mean the second one, that she simply thinks that the place where her parents reside is too far away. The first one is possible to mean that she wants them to move from where they are now to a place closer to her, but "would move" is more common, I think, in US English.

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  • mango paint 954 Which one is correct?
  • They are both correct, but I think you mean the second one, that she simply thinks that the place where her parents reside is too far away.
  • The first one is possible to mean that she wants them to move from where they are now to a place closer to her, but "would move" is more common, I think, in US English.
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mango paint 954Which one is correct?

They are both correct, but I think you mean the second one, that she simply thinks that the place where her parents reside is too far away. The first one is possible to mean that she wants them to move from where they are now to a place closer to her, but "would move" is more common, I think, in US English.

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mango paint 954She wishes her parents would [live nearer].

You need a dynamic predicate in this grammatical pattern. 'live' is too stative.

I wish she would know how to make lasagna. NO!
I wish she knew how to make lasagna. Go

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