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I wish I could master the grammar of ‘I wish’

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Many, especially form a non-English background, find it difficult to use the structure ‘I    wish’ confidently. The unfamiliarity with the grammar, necessary to use this    structure,create uncertainty among us, which is the source of the discomfort commonly felt    by many while using this structure.   But the good news is the structures of ‘I wish’ is easy to master. It requires the basic sense    of the tenses and a careful reading of this article for ten minutes or so. Let's jump into it and learn how to express wishes in English once and for all. There are three types of expressions that could be expressed with the phrase ‘I wish’. You    can express wish from three perspective—present, Past, and future. Most of our wishes    revolve around the future. So why not start with the future wishes. The future wishes or I wish + would/could In order to wish for the future time the words ‘ would’ and ‘could’ are essential. They add    a  sense of futurity in t

The difference between 'to marry' and 'getting married'

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Are you planning to marry your loved one? If so, then, I would say you are going in the right direction. let’s be frank, what is more, sacred than two loved ones getting married ? But you are here to find out the correct way of stating the verb ‘to marry’. So what’s the difference between the two? Generally speaking, in terms of meaning, there is no significant difference, as you might have realized after reading the first paragraph. Both of them, actually, mean the same action of stepping into the official relationship of husband and wife, preferably in a ceremony. Difference between ‘to marry’ and ‘get married’ Although there is a subtle difference in the meaning, the main difference lies in the structure of the sentence formation. ‘ To marry’ indicates a direct action (the processes of marriage) performed by the subject, while ‘to get married’ indicates turning into a state of married life, which could be used both in a transitive or an intransitive way. Let’s se