Direction: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. Your answer is (4) i.e., No error.
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- I wish I am
- the richest person
- in the whole wide world.
- No error
Correct Option: A
I were will replace I am
Wish is most commonly used in imaginary/unreal situations. as in –
I wish (that) you were here. (But, you are not, and I miss you).
The tense of the Verb that follows I wish is mostly in Past Tense.
In Subjunctive form we use were and not was after wish.
Look at the examples given below :
I’m very fat. I wish I were thin.
I wish I were taller.
I wish to be taller. (Present Time)
Hence, I wish I were is the right usage.
