Use of Wish

Introduction

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Use of Wish

Let’s start off the easy part. ‘I wish to’ can means the same as ‘I want to’ but it is much, more formal and much less common.

I wish to make a complaint
I wish to see the manager

You can also use ‘wish’ with a noun to ‘offer good wishes’.

I wish you all the best in your job.

When you want to offer good wishes using a verb, you must use ‘hope’ and not ‘wish’.

We wish you the best of luck.
We hope you have the best of luck.

‘wish’ is use to say that we have regrets about the present situation.

I wish I was rich

Task

Conversation Practice

have a face to face question and answer interaction between 2 students. They have to speak ask each other about their wishes, and students have to answer with the correct way of saying 'I wish'.
each of them should take note of his/her answers by writing in a paper and has the opportunity to correct errors from it.

Process

Use of wish

1. The verb tense which follows ‘I wish’ is ‘more in the past’ than the tense corresponding to its meaning.

I’m too fat. I wish I was thin.
It’s raining. I wish it wasn’t raining.

2. In the case of ‘will’, where ‘will’ means ‘show willingness’ we use ‘would’

He won’t help me. I wish he would help me.

3. Where ‘will’ means a future event, we cannot use ‘wish’ and must use ‘hope’.

I hope everything will be fine in your job.

4. in more formal English, we use the subjunctive form ‘were’ and not ‘was’ after ‘wish’

I wish I were taller
I wish he were here

Evaluation

Based from the activity:

students will gain points after correcting papers. then after, the teacher will take charge of the final correction and present it to the class. Moreover, students can identify their errors immediately and can able to use properly the 'I wish' in daily conversation.

Conclusion

Similar to conditional sentences are those that use "wish" to express something isn't true now, or it wasn't true in the past. To make sentences with "wish" properly, a knowledge of the sequence of tense is important.

We can use 'wish' to talk about something that we would like to be different in the present or the future. It's used for things which are impossible or very unlikely.

We can also use “wish” to express “want” in a formal situation, for example, we can say “I wish to talk to the headmaster”