How to express regret in this case? I wish I could have turned back time...
How to express regret in this case? I wish I could have turned back time... Is it grammaticaly correct to use "could have V3"? Thank you for your relief in advance 😇
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It would be more typical to say "I wish I could turn back time", if you still regret that presently.
If you mean, you regretted before but now you don't: "I wished I could have turned back time" would be clearer than what you have written.
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Your sentence is completely OK. It is set in the past, though. In it, you express regret ( in the present) about a past time when you were unable to turn back time even further.
A more typical expression of regret set in the present would be: "iI wish I could turn back time."
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"Could have" is normally followed by a verb's past participle - as you used with "turned".
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