wish you were here

[Rickyrocky]

Hi,

I wish you were here. - Conditional type 2.
I wish you are here. Conditional zero.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Thanks.

[E2e4]

Hi Rickyrocky,

I’ll tell you how I see this

@Rickyrocky

Hi,

1. I wish you were here. - Conditional type 2. [color=blue](He/she isn’t here. If he/she were here I would be happy. “were” is the past subjunctive of the verb be. So it could be some kind of conditional type 2)
2. I wish you are here. Conditional zero. [color=blue]( If #1 is correct grammar then #2 isn’t.)

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Thanks.

[Rickyrocky]

Hmm…
Allow me to ask some similar questions.

I wish you are here.
I wish you were here.
I wish you had been here.
I wished you were here.
I wished you had been here.

Oh God, some one please help.
Thanks

[Esl_Expert]

Hi Rickyrocky,

I wish you were here. - Conditional type 2.
I wish you are here. Conditional zero.

Your first sentence is correct, but your second sentence is simply incorrect.

When we talk about ‘type 2 conditionals’, that is generally a reference to a type of IF sentence which refers to something that is unlikely or unreal now and/or in the future. We generally do not use the term ‘type 2 conditional’ to refer to a ‘wish’ sentence even though the form of the verb will be the same as in the IF-clause of a type 2 conditional (or a type 3 conditional if the wish is about the past).

In your first ‘wish’ sentence, the speaker is wishing for something that is currently counter-factual or unreal.

Another type of ‘wish’ sentence refers to a situation that is unreal/counter-factual in the past. (e.g. ‘I wish you had been here yesterday’).

Basically, there are no ‘wish’ sentences that correspond to a so-called ‘Type 1 IF-sentence’ or to a zero conditional.

My comments on you second batch of sentences are inside the quote in blue:

I wish you are here. [color=red]incorrect
I wish you were here. [color=blue]OK. The wishing is current, and ‘you’ is not currently ‘here’.
I wish you had been here. [color=blue]OK. The wishing is current. The wisher is unhappy about the fact that ‘you’ was not here at a particular point in the past. (It is possible that 'you is ‘here’ now, but the sentence does not tell us whether ‘you’ is currently ‘here’ or not. It refers only to a past situation when ‘you’ was not ‘here’.)
I wished you were here. [color=blue]OK. The wishing was done in the past. ‘You’ was not ‘here’ at the time the wishing took place.
I wished you had been here. [color=blue]OK. The wishing was done in the past. ‘You’ was either not ‘here’ at the time the wishing took place, or (more likely) at a time before the wishing took place.

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[Rickyrocky]

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[E2e4]

I am suspicious about,‘I wished you were here.’

[Beeesneees]

You shouldn’t be suspicious. Esl_Expert knows what she is talking about.

At some time in the past I wished.
The wish I made was that you were here.
(You may or may not be here now.)
(I was here when I made the wish in the past and I am here now. I may or may not have gone somewhere else in between the two points in time.)

[Alan]

Hi E2e4,

I assume your comment:

I am suspicious about ‘I wished you were here’.

doesn’t refer to any explanation given above but I am at a loss to know what exactly you mean. What in fact do you suspect?

Alan