Question

I wish I (listen) to my parents' advice.

Answer 1

Answer :

This sentence in based on tenses.

The correct sentence is :

I wish I had listened to my parents' advice.

In the given sentence, the Past Perfect tense is used as we are referring to an action that was completed at some point in the past.

The syntax for forming Past Perfect Tense is Subject + had + [past participle].

Answer 2

I wish I had listened to my parents’ advice.

In this sentence, the action was completed at some point in the past. It is referring to a time earlier than before now.

The sentence indicates that something was possible to do in the past, or you had the ability to do that in the past, but you did not do that.

The verb form shows that one event happened before another in the past.