Hope & Auxiliary Verbs
I hope that could be done in the future.
Is this sentence grammatically wrong? Most of the guides I read only ever discuss "would" and "will" used with "hope". I understand I can revise the sentence to exclude any auxiliary verbs, but I'd like to be able to use them correctly instead.
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Is this sentence grammatically wrong? I can imagine its being uttered as a kind of tentativeness, but it certainly sounds wrong to me. The standard paradigms are: I hope I can/am/will...
- Is this sentence grammatically wrong?
- I can imagine its being uttered as a kind of tentativeness, but it certainly sounds wrong to me.
- The standard paradigms are: I hope I can/am/will...
- I wish I could/were/would...
- I suggest that you stick with those.
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anonymousI hope that could be done in the future.Is this sentence grammatically wrong?
I can imagine its being uttered as a kind of tentativeness, but it certainly sounds wrong to me. The standard paradigms are:
I hope I can/am/will...
I wish I could/were/would...
I suggest that you stick with those.
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