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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

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I don’t know if we are leaving tomorrow; I wish we were leaving tomorrow.

Is this sentence correct?

  

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It's correct, but I think I'd say it slightly differently, without the repetition. I don't know if we're leaving tomorrow, but I wish we were. Note, however, that more usually if we don't know, we say "hope"; it's when we know that something is not so that we usually say "wish".

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It's correct, but I think I'd say it slightly differently, without the repetition.

I don't know if we're leaving tomorrow, but I wish we were.

Note, however, that more usually if we don't know, we say "hope"; it's when we know that something is not so that we usually say "wish". The following sentences illustrate this:

I don't know if we're leaving tomorrow, but I