I'm Alice Bryant.

Have you ever hoped that someone would change a bad habit or unpleasant behavior?

If you live on this planet, chances are that you have one way English speakers express.

Such a hope is with the form Wish Plus would listen to the form as this speaker talks about an ongoing problem.

I wish you would stop smoking.

It's going to give you lung problems.

The form wish Plus would is also a way of casually complaining about someone, sometimes knowing that the behavior will not change.

Here's an example.

That actor is so rude.

I wish he would be nicer to people.

We can use this form and positive sentences with wood or negative sentences with wooden to express the same general meaning like this.

I wish he wouldn't be mean to people.

I wish you would not smoke cigarettes.

For some English learners, the form wish Plus would maybe a little challenging at first because it contains announce clause.

Not to worry.

You can learn more about the verb wish and how we use it with noun clauses on earlier everyday grammar programs.