I wish I had a tree house. Is it right to say I wish I had a tree house. or I wish I'd had a tree house.

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Claire

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I wish I had a tree house.

Is it right to say I wish I had a tree house. or I wish I'd had a tree house.

Examples:

I'd = I had

1) I wish I had a tree house (right now in the present)

2) I wish I had a tree house (speaking with someone, about a tree house that you wish you had in the past)

3) I wish I had had a tree house (speaking about someone, about a tree house that you wish you had had in the past).. detailed further below.

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I wish I had had a tree house when that bear was chasing me, because then I might have escaped.

I wish I had had less chocolates before dinner, because they really made me sick.

Both of them are correctly, the first one is the good way to say. And the second one is to speak less as if you were shorten the words.

They are both correct, but one is in the present and the other in the past. Examples, I wish I had a tree house to play in. I wish I'd had a tree house when I was a child.

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