Hey, I've come across the below sentence which seems to be interesting for me. Expand on that, could I say: I know that if I don't study hard prior to the exam, I'm going to wish I had?
Hmm. The picture describes a threat, not something you wish you had done.
So, if a parent says to a child, "Don't jump on the bed or you'll wish you hadn't", it means that the child are going to get severely punished if they jump on the bed.
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That is a perfectly fine sentence. It illustates a mature attitude toward the necessity of preparation. We also use this structure in a cautionary sense (not threatening), as to a friend who doesn't want to do something. "I think you will wish you had (done so)"
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Hi Arkadiusz, yes, this is an example of a first conditional sentence, where you predict a likely outcome in the present or future. The structure and meaning both make sense.
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Unless someone else has threatened you....but you would have to describe that situation in order to read threat into it.
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Oh right. No, it's no threat at all.
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