1. The runner wishes his legs​ (​be) longer. 2. I do wish you​ (​stop) playing that song over and over again– it’s driving me mad!
3. I wish I​ (​not start) smoking when I was a teenager. It’s so hard to give up.
4. I wish the bus​ (​come) soon! I’ve been waiting here for twenty minutes.
5. Don’t you wish you​ (​live) in a quieter part of town?
6. I wish you​ (​not be) so busy – I’d love to come and visit you.
7. Do you think Ela sometimes wishes she​ (​have) curly hair?
8. My mum has always wished she​ (​can ride) a horse.
9. I’m hungry. I wish I​ (​buy) something to eat when we were in that shop.
10. My friend wishes he​ (​not have to) work so much.0

11. We wish we​‘d gone (​go) to the same place as you on holiday last month. It sounds fantastic.
12. I wish you​ (​lose) your keys all the time!!! It has already cost me a fortune to change the lock so many times.
13. I wish I​ (​move) to Britain a year ago! I hate this weather.
14. I wish my father​ (​not slurp) the soup when he’s eating! It’s so embarrassing! 15. The students wish the school term​ (​be) over and they could have a rest.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Which excerpt from the passage provides evidence of a chronological structure? o “slavery was abolished thirty years before the emancipation proclamation." "the sugar plantation owners were desperate." "so the british owners looked to another part of the empire." "thousands of men and women were given five-year contracts.

Multiple ! in this excerpt from act i, scene vi, of macbeth, duncan praises the atmosphere in the castle and the hospitality of his hostess. identify two reasons that these comments are ironic. duncan: this castle hath a pleasant seat: the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense. . . (enter lady macbeth.) duncan: see, see, our honour'd hostess! — the love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we as love. herein i teach you how you shall bid god ild us for your pains, and us for your trouble. he will meet his death in the castle, which he considers a pleasant place. his praise for inverness and his hostess, lady macbeth, is deceptive. duncan secretly plans to give macbeth's title to donalbain. the hostess he praises is actually plotting his murder.