> 1. I would prefer that we wait a little longer.
> 2. I would prefer that we waited a little longer.
> (This is not a
> statement about the past; it's a statement of a
> preference about the present.)
> 3. I would prefer that we had waited a little
> longer. (This is a
> statement about the past; something that the speaker
> wishes had happened
> but it didn't happen.)

Johanna (and others),

Don't you think 3. would sound better as in the
following?

3. I would have preferred that we had waited a little
longer.

Kevin

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