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Do we use 'were' or 'is' here?



 
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Do we use 'were' or 'is' here? #1 (permalink) Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:21 pm   Do we use 'were' or 'is' here?
 

Hi, my teachers

I wrote this sentence
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I wish you merry Christmas and happy new year and Eid Mubarak,and this year were peace year.


and I used were not is in it, because I wrote wish .... that's right?!

regards,

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Were or is #2 (permalink) Fri Dec 22, 2006 18:13 pm   Were or is
 

Hi Mba :)

You have the right idea, there are different ways to use 'wish'.

Your sentence uses wish to give a greeting to people.

I wish you merry Christmas and happy New Year and Eid Mubarak.
I wish you peace this year. / I wish you a peaceful world.


When you wish for something to be true now which is not true, then you would formulate the sentence differently:
I wish the world were at peace.

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Were or is #3 (permalink) Sat Jan 13, 2007 18:24 pm   Were or is
 

I wish you were here now. ( present )- He is not here for the time being.
I wish you had been here yesterday. ( past ) - He wasn't here yesterday.
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