## Step 4 - Grammar

Grammar
Let's look at .....wish.

- I wish that global warming didn’t affect every aspect of the environment so dramatically.

We use 'wish' to regret something, a situation that is not as we would like it to be.
We use the past after 'wish', although the meaning may not be the past.

- I wish there weren’t so many people at this football stadium.
  There are a lot of people (present) and I regret that there are.

We might follow this with and if-clause stating how we would like the situation to be:

- If I had stayed at home, I would have been able to see the game better.