How to Use the Verb Wish in English

In this grammar lesson, I teach you how to use the verb wish in English
and what the difference is between "wish" and "hope"

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0:00 How to use the verb wish
0:36 When can you use wish?
1:10 Difference between hope and wish
2:00 Grammar for verb wish
3:32 How to use I wish I were
4:22 How to use wish for future
5:54 How to use wish for past
7:23 How to use wish + noun

Check out these examples of the verb "wish":
I wish I could live in Italy.
I wish I had enough money to buy a better car.
I wish I spoke better Portuguese.
I wish I had spent more time with my grandmother before she passed away.

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