Wishes or regret /help

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Wishes or regret /help
Message from mohammad51 posted on 17-09-2022 at 13:43:07 (D | E | F)
Hello
Please guide me with this sentence
The correct answer is as marked by the page (A) ?

Now I really wish...
a. I hadn't chosen that course. ✔️
b. I wouldn't choose that course.
c. I didn't choose that course.

I astonished how using ( Now ) and followed it by a past perfect
I know it conveys ( regret ) about past events

Does it really mean (He feels now regretted about that course he had not chosen in the past ) OR how ?

Is it correct to use ( Now ) at the beginning of a sentence carrying regret about past events ?

Re: Wishes or regret /help from gerold, posted on 17-09-2022 at 19:04:15 (D | E)
Hello

"Now" is not followed by a past perfect verb. It is linked to "wish", a present tense verb used to express present regrets about events which happened or not in the past.

Does it really mean (~~He feels now regretted~~ ... he now regrets his decision not to choose that course.

Re: Wishes or regret /help from gerold, posted on 18-09-2022 at 11:38:45 (D | E)
Hello

Sorry, my mistake:

he now regrets his decision ~~not~~ to choose that course. (= He did choose that course, but he now regrets his decision)

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Edited by gerold on 18-09-2022 18:50

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