To express regrets about past events, we use the subject, followed by wish/wishes, followed by the past perfect (subject + had/hadn't + past participle).
Listen to the programme first and then take the challenge and do the quizzes on this grammar point.
Click here if you need to read the grammar explanation.
Listen to the programme first and then take the challenge and do the quizzes on this grammar point.
Click here if you need to read the grammar explanation.
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Hello,
I wish I'd learnt this structure before. It's not easy for me to use it in Speaking language.
Regards,
Antonio
VERY USEFUL EXERCISES!!
I am according with Anonymous, the exercises are very useful, also the listening.
I have found a curiosity: at the end of the quizzes, in the regret sentences written by Thuytrang, form Vietnam, the teacher says "...verb. In this case, it's learn, learned/learnt, learned/learnt, so you should...".
I didn't know that a verb could have two verbal forms for the past and the past participle.
Now I also have a wish: I wish I had had more time to study English this course.
Bye
The verbs burn, dream, lean, learn, smell, spill and spoil are all regular in American English and are written as burned, dreamed, leaned etc.
In British English they can be regular but irregular past tenses and participles with –t tend to be more common (burnt, dreamt, leant etc).
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