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English 1b3 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Wish - transitive vs intransitive

We need the completed brief at least 7 working days before you wish the email to the database to be sent out.

I feel it is more common to use 'wish' intransitively, even though the above works. Would you say 'wish for' in the above or leave it as a transitive verb?

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This seems common enough to me, but I don't think that 'wish' is more often intransitive. ' Here we have an infinitive clause as object.

— Mister Micawber

  • This seems common enough to me, but I don't think that 'wish' is more often intransitive.
  • ' Here we have an infinitive clause as object.
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This seems common enough to me, but I don't think that 'wish' is more often intransitive. We are always 'wishing that...' Here we have an infinitive clause as object.
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