Wish I could just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch. vs Wish I can just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch.

The first phrase, 'wish I could just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch,' is correct. The modal verb 'could' is used to express a hypothetical situation or a wish in the past. The second phrase, 'wish I can just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch,' is incorrect because 'can' is not the appropriate modal verb to use in this context.

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Wish I could just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to express a wish or hypothetical situation in the past.

This phrase is used to express a desire to do something in a hypothetical situation in the past. The modal verb 'could' is used to indicate the possibility of the action.

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I wish I had a job that I could just leave.
I wish I could just live in this moment.
I wish I could just go back to the beginning.
I sometimes wish I could just curl up with a girl.
I wish I could just make them stop.
I wish I could just lie here forever.
I wish I could just hating at all.
I wish I could just be a completely new person.
I wish I could just find it behind my ear.
I wish I could just walk up and ask that of Washington.
I wish I could just erase these past few weeks.
I wish I could just sit with you.
You know, I wish I could just connect.
I wish I could just flip a switch and be drunk.
I wish I could just opt out of the whole thing.
I mean, sometimes I wish I could just be one of the shiny, happy people.
I wish I could just know what you're thinking about it all, Martha.
I wish I could just ask her why she's been keeping everything from me and including Sutton.
Wish I could just tell you that you'll never feel pain.
Sometimes I wish I could just say what's on my mind.

Wish I can just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch.

This phrase is incorrect. 'Can' is not the appropriate modal verb to use in this context.

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You can't just smash the thing.
No, we'd just smash the glass and swim to safety if it came to that.
My dad's just sitting there reading the news paper or something and I'm just... beating the eggs with a fork.
The whole plan depends on taking the egg with us.
Of course if you wish I can supply precise and detailed information on previous examples.
Mr Vermeer, if you wish I can be even more specific.
No, but I can make you wish I did.
I wish I could write, but I can only lift a corn sack.
I hope we can find the eggs with all this snow!
If I can just find out what he's up to, at least I can protect him from himself.
If I can just get what I got to my distributor, I can retire.
Listen, I think if I can just detox from Meatball for a few days, then I can quell my addiction.
I can just - I can Uber from here.
I'm analyzing the egg sacks to see if I can narrow it down further.
I can just divide numbers, that's like atom smashing.
And if I want to control him, I can just drive.
But in the plenary perhaps I can just recall some basic elements.
Perhaps I can just quote them.
I can just picture Igor and his monster now, plotting their deadly combat maneuvers.
I... someone I can just talk to later.

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Wish I could just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch. vs Wish I can just smash the egg with my bare hands rather than wait for it to hatch.