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MustAsk Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Wish I was born in the future

Hi

I sometimes wish I was born in the future.

Is it that the right way to say it? How about

I wish to have been born in the future? I'm really confused now

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I think it all depends on whether you treat (or rather should treat) 'wish' as a regular verb or subjunctive. Thus, we have I wish I was born in the future. (OK, subjunctive) I sometimes wish to be born/have been born in the future.

— Ivanhr

  • I think it all depends on whether you treat (or rather should treat) 'wish' as a regular verb or subjunctive.
  • Thus, we have I wish I was born in the future.
  • (OK, subjunctive) I sometimes wish to be born/have been born in the future.
  • (OK, regular verb) The use of 'sometimes', in my opinion, allows the sentence to be used with the wish treated in the normal (non-subjunctive) way.
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I think it all depends on whether you treat (or rather should treat) 'wish' as a regular verb or subjunctive. Thus, we have

I wish I was born in the future. (OK, subjunctive)

I sometimes wish to be born/have been born in the future. (OK, regular verb)

The use of 'sometimes', in my opinion, allows the sentence to be used with the wish treated in the normal (non-subjunct
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MustAskI sometimes wish I was born in the future.Is it that the right way to say it?
That's possible. I'd say,

I (sometimes) wish I hadn't been born so soon. (I think) I would have preferred to be born much later.

CJ
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Another question regarding this:

1.It would have been better if I had been born in the future.
2.It would be better if I was born in the future.

Playing with past and future in the same sentence makes my head spin. Do both makes sense?
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MustAskDo both makes make sense?
Yes.

CJ
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