Master of the Game/ television series based on the novel by Sidney Sheldon. Again I'd like some advice

[Torsten]

@Masme

My dear friend Torsten, your English is much better than mine, would you please be my knight in shining arrmour again?

Wow Marc, so many compliments at once Thank you very much for them. As for my English I’m not sure if it’s really that much better than yours if at all. What I have noticed is that my level of English hasn’t increased much for the last 10 or so years which made me shift my focus on other topics than just English as such. What I find much more interesting and intriguing than just grammar is the way people think and what they are willing to do to get what they want. So, now that I have answered quite a few of your questions, how you answer one of mine ;-)? For example this one: 2020 is around the corner

@Anglophile

In my opinion, there is a marked difference between He’ll wish he’d been dead and He’ll wish he was (were) dead . The former indicates that he liked to have really been dead whereas the latter suggests a hypothetical or unreal situation in which he would like to have been dead rather than alive. I understand the nuance this way.

I absolutely agree with you here, Lawrence. Thank you so much for sharing your view and I too look forward to seeing what Alan has to say once he returns from his holiday.