English subjunctive for the time before past

I'm an English learner.
In English subjunctive, we often use "wish".

For example,
"I wish I were thin."
"I wished I had been thin."

But the question is how to express subjunctive mood in this below sentence.

"I had wished ___________."

The two examples above had gaps where tenses of wish are different from the tenses of the contents.
So I wonder how subjunctive mood is indicated in the last sentence.

No.2 ベストアンサー 回答者： wind-sky-wind 回答日時： 2016/06/19 08:06

In other words, there's no tense agreement in the subjunctive mood.

I think she is thin.
I thought she was thin.

As for "to think," when the main clause was in the past, the tense in the "that" clause is also the past.
This is tense agreement.

When you said to yourself yesterday, "I wish I were thin," you can write now:
I wished (yesterday) I were thin.

Whether you "wish" now or "wished" yesterday, you can use "I were thin."

I wish I had been thin when I was young.
I wished (yesterday) I had been thin when I was young.

The past perfect "had been" is used when it is earlier than the time you wish or wished.

I had wished I were thin until I met my husband.
I had wished I had been thin when I was young.

この回答へのお礼

I understood what you were saying. It was so helpful enough for me to use subjunctive mood correctly.
Thank you very much.

お礼日時：2016/06/19 21:45

No.1 回答者： wind-sky-wind 回答日時： 2016/06/18 22:24

First, I'm afraid you might be mistaken about one thing.

I mean, the tense of "to wish" (wish or wished, or had wished) doesn't influence the tense in the "that" clause as the object of "to wish."

この回答へのお礼

Thank you for your answer.
It's so helpful.

You mean "to wish" can take any object as long as the meaning can be interpreted?

And if it's OK, please give an example of a sentence using "had wished".

お礼日時：2016/06/18 23:08