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To talk about a wish for the future or to show a contrast between how things are and how we would like them to be, we use if only + would + infinitive without to: If only someone would buy the house. If only they would talk to each other. We use if only + past perfect to talk about a wish to change something that has already happened:
Grammar explanation. We use wish and if only to talk about things that we would like to be different in either the present or the past. If only is usually a bit stronger than wish. In the present. We can use wish/if only + a past form to talk about a present situation we would like to be different. I wish you didn't live so far away.
I wish e if only son los elementos que te ayudan a expresar deseos en inglés, además de arrepentimientos. Gracias a su naturaleza, son muy comunes en las conversaciones del día a día, por eso aquí encontrarás sus estructuras para formar frases, cuándo usar cada uno y ejemplos útiles.
Las expresiones con "wish" e "if only" son ejemplos del modo subjuntivo, que se usan para expresar deseos improbables o imposibles (o recomendaciones, sin "wish" / "if only"). En el modo subjuntivo, se usa "were" (no " was "): con el pasado simple de "be": "I wish he were on holiday." " If only he were on holiday."
WISH e IF ONLY suelen ser equivalentes a “ojalá” en español y son, casi siempre, intercambiables. Wish + Past Simple. Esta estructura la utilizamos para expresar que lamentamos algo, o que las cosas no sean de otra manera. I wish I didn’t have to work. (Ojalá no hubiera que trabajar.)
unreal situations. IF ONLY. WISH. We can make second and third conditionals more emphatic by placing only after if: If (only) I knew the answer, I'd tell you. If (only) I had revised more, I would have done better on my exam.
Se usa I wish e if only para hablar de cosas que se desean o de las que nos lamentamos. Se usa …as if… y …as though… para mostrar que la información contenida en una cláusula podría ser cierta o no.
