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"I wish you would have said..."?
A: I know this apology is overdue, but I want to say that I'm sorry for being so rude to you last week.
B: Thank you, but I wish you'd said something earlier.
This is from someone's test or textbook. I find "you had said" makes sense to me, all right, but I see lots of "I wish you would have said something" on Google. Is the 'would' to cushion the word? Would you say that in the above context, too?
5 giu 2018 14:39
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Thank you, Su.Ki :)
5 giugno 2018
"I wish you'd said something"/ "I wish you had said something" = correct, standard English
"I wish you would have said something" = incorrect, non-standard English - but very common
5 giugno 2018
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Competenze linguistiche
Inglese, Giapponese
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese
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