fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options :

I wish I …. to swim when I was younger.

  • A Had learnt
  • B Learn
  • C Learnt
  • D Was learning
  • E Have learnt.
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The correct answer is A. Had learnt

The correct option to fill in the blank space is Had learnt.

So, the complete sentence would be: "I wish I had learnt to swim when I was younger."

In this sentence, the past perfect tense "had learnt" is used to express a regret about something that didn't happen in the past. 

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