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tommy1996
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Please help me with the sentence: He wishes you (work) ……………. more than (talk) ……………. Thanks a lot |
19 Sep 2021
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cunliffe
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He wishes you worked more than you talked. (It is the remote past.) |
19 Sep 2021
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mariec
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I would say: He wishes you would work more than talk. It´s something that annoys him or he´d like to change the situation . |
20 Sep 2021
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cunliffe
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Mariec�s suggestion is good, but it�s better as: he wishes you would work rather than talk. Even so, neither of these suggestions sounds like a natural utterance, which is sometimes the case with these language queries we re asked to comment on. What would probably be said is: he wishes you would spend more time working and less time talking.
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21 Sep 2021
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