English language help (2)
Big confusion with STRUCTURES AFTER WISH now. Maybe someone can help me with this too... :)
As far as I understand:
Regret about a present action is expressed with WISH + SIMPLE PAST:
I wish I had a cat.
I wish you had a cat.
I wish it were sunnier.
Regret about a past action is expressed with WISH + PAST PERFECT:
I wish I had bought you a present.
I wish you had bought her a present.
I wish it had been sunnier.
When we want something that we find annoying to stop we use: WISH + WOULD + VERB:
I wish you wouldn't make noise.
She wishes it wouldn't rain.
Assuming the above is correct, what about the following? Are both structures 1/2, 3/4 possible depending on what I really want to express?
1. I wish my friends lived nearer. (I am expressing a wish related to the
present, they live far away at the moment, and/or it's almost impossible for them to live nearer?)
2. I wish my friends would live nearer. (I am expressing a wish related
to the future and/or it's possible for them to live nearer?)
And what about these ones?
3. I wish it didn't rain. (this means that it is raining at the moment
and I am simply expressing a regret?)
4. I wish it wouldn't rain.(This means that it is raining at the moment, I find it annoying and I wish it would stop?)
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I'm not looking for grammar explanations, I would just like to know if the 4 last sentences sound correct to you and you would use them in the contexts that come in red? :-)