Wish - Revision history

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 ==Main course==
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is often followed by a full sentence in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">simple past</span> or the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past continuous</span> to express regrets about the present or (im)possible futures.
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is often followed by a full sentence in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">simple past</span> or the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past continuous</span> to express regrets about the '''present''' or (im)possible '''futures'''.
 #*I wish I knew when the delivery would be here.
 #*I wish he had a cell-phone.
 #*Don't you wish you were queen/king of the planet?
 #*They're going to Martinique.  I kind of wish I were going with them. <span style="font-size:80%;color:#777;">(''was'' is probably more frequent than ''were'')</span>
-#If the embedded clause is in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past perfect</span>, it expresses regrets about the past.
+#If the following sentence is in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past perfect</span>, it expresses regrets about the '''past'''.
 #*I wish I had known we were supposed to bring cake.
 #*I bet you wish you had brought cake.

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 #*We wished each other well and moved on.
 #*You can't really wish away age.
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is '''''not''''' followed by a full sentence (Subject/Verb/Object) in the simple present, present continuous, or the future.
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is '''''not''''' followed by a full sentence in the simple present, present continuous, or the future.
 #''Instead'', use <span style="color:#052;">hope</span> with the simple present or the future.
 #*I hope you don't mind if I leave a bit early.

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 ==Starter==
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> can be followed by a verbless <abbr title="proposition">clause</abbr> <span style="font-size:80%;">(and by words from a few other classes: an occasional particle, resultative adjective, ...  )</span>
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> can be followed by arguments (benefactor (who the wishes are for), theme of the wish, ...) <span style="font-size:80%;">(and by words from a few other classes: an occasional particle, resultative adjective, ...  )</span>
 #*We wish you the best of luck.
 #*She wished me a merry Christmas.

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 ==Main course==
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is often followed by an embedded clause in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">simple past</span> or the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past continuous</span> to express regrets about the present or (im)possible futures.
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is often followed by a full sentence in the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">simple past</span> or the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:80%:font-weight:bold;color:#063;">past continuous</span> to express regrets about the present or (im)possible futures.
 #*I wish I knew when the delivery would be here.
 #*I wish he had a cell-phone.

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 ==Starter==
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> can be followed by a verbless <abbr title="proposition imbriquée">embedded clause</abbr> <span style="font-size:80%;">(and by words from a few other classes: an occasional particle, resultative adjective, ...  )</span>
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> can be followed by a verbless <abbr title="proposition">clause</abbr> <span style="font-size:80%;">(and by words from a few other classes: an occasional particle, resultative adjective, ...  )</span>
 #*We wish you the best of luck.
 #*She wished me a merry Christmas.
 #*We wished each other well and moved on.
 #*You can't really wish away age.
-#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is '''''not''''' followed by an <abbr title="proposition imbriquée">embedded clause</abbr> in the simple present, present continuous, or the future.
+#<span style="color:#026;font-weight:bold;">wish</span> is '''''not''''' followed by a full sentence (Subject/Verb/Object) in the simple present, present continuous, or the future.
 #''Instead'', use <span style="color:#052;">hope</span> with the simple present or the future.
 #*I hope you don't mind if I leave a bit early.

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 ==Appetizer==
-<span style=";color:#A47;">So, so you think you can tell<br />
+<div style="column-count:3;background-color:#333;padding:50px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;">
 Heaven from hell?<br />
 Blue skies from pain?<br />
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 From a cold steel rail?<br />
 A smile from a veil?<br />
-Do you think you can tell?<br /><br /></span>
+Do you think you can tell?<br /><br /><br /></p>
-<span style="color:#A74;">Did they get you to trade<br />
+<p style="color:#A74;">Did they get you to trade<br />
 Your heroes for ghosts?<br />
 Hot ashes for trees?<br />
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 Did you exchange<br />
 A walk-on part in the war<br />
-For a leading role in a cage<br /><br /></span>
+For a leading role in a cage<br /><br /></p>
-<span style="color:#47A;">How I <i>wish</i>, how I <i>wish</i> you were here<br />
+<p style="color:#47A;">How I <i>wish</i>, how I <i>wish</i> you were here<br />
 We're just two lost souls<br />
 Swimming in a fish bowl<br />
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 What have we found?<br />
 The same old fears<br />
-''Wish'' you were here</span>
+''Wish'' you were here</p>
+</div>
 </div>

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 If I were a biddy biddy rich,<br />
 Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.<br /><br />
-Lord who made the lion and the lamb,<br>
+Lord who made the lion and the lamb,<br />
 would it spoil some vast eternal plan<br />
 If I were a wealthy man?</p>

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 <html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglhQzAIOvE</html5media>
 <p style="color:#A74;">'Dear God, you made many, many poor people.<br />
-I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor.<br />
+I realize, of course, (that) it's no shame to be poor.<br />
 But it's no great honor either!<br />
 So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?'<br /><br />
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 And one more leading nowhere, just for show.<br /><br />
 I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks<br />
-For the town to see and hear.<br />
+For the town to see and hear<br />
 And each loud 'cheep' and 'swawk' and 'honk' and 'quack'<br />
 Would land like a trumpet on the ear,<br />

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 Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.<br />
 If I were a biddy biddy rich,<br />
-Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
+Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.<br /><br />
 <html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc</html5media>
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