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Help the exhausted college student express her frustration by choosing the correct phrase.

Sarah stared blankly at the ceiling at 2:00 AM. "I love my roommate," she muttered, "but I wish she ___ practicing the bagpipes in the middle of the night!"

The correct answer is would stop.

To express annoyance or dissatisfaction with someone else's current behavior and a desire for them to change it in the future, we use wish + would + base verb.

Stops and will stop are incorrect because we must shift the tense back after "wish." Had stopped is used for regrets about the past, but the bagpipe playing is happening right now!

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