this language in my childhood. 8.1 am sorry I haven’t locked the door. 9. Unfortunately, she has missed the last train.

10. It’s a pity I didn’t take the camera with me.    •

Exercise 146. Choose the right form of the verb from the brackets. Explain your choice. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1, He wished he ... never ... her to visit India (asked/has

... asked/had ... asked). 2.1 wish I......that I’ve never been

afraid (can say/could say/will be able to say). 3.1 wish I... your compliments. I don’t (deserve/deserves/deserved/had deserved). 4. I was afraid something was going to happen,

and I wished I......(don’t speak/doesn’t speak/didn’t speak/

hadn’t spoken). 5. I wish that poor Strickland......still

alive. I wonder what he would have said when I gave him twenty-nine thousand eight hundred francs for his picture (is/are/was/were/has been/had been). 6. I wish I ... some thing for you, some good thing (can do/could do/will be able to do). 7. He wished now that when the director of his firm spoke to him he ... differently (answer/answers/ answered/had answered). 8. “Oh, I don’t know what I’m

talking about. How I* wish ......some proper education”

(have/has/had/had had). 9. “Haven’t you been to Paris?” “Yes, I was there last year, in September” “We must have been there together. How curiousl I wish I ...you” (see/saw/ has seen/had seen).

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