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Ansonguy Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Hope you are going vs hope you will

I've heard that you usually use the future tense for "hope". For example,

(1) I hope you will pass the test tomorrow.

Is it grammatically wrong to say:

(2) I hope you are going to pass the test tomorrow.

Thanks a lot.

  

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Neither of those is very natural. Most often one would say "I hope you pass the test tomorrow". g.

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  • Neither of those is very natural.
  • Most often one would say "I hope you pass the test tomorrow".
  • g.
  • "I hope you're going to clean up all this mess when you've finished".
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Neither of those is very natural. Most often one would say "I hope you pass the test tomorrow".

"I hope you are going to ..." is most often used when the other person can decide to do or not do something, e.g. "I hope you're going to clean up all this mess when you've finished".

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If you compare those on fraze.it, you'll see that "I hope you will" (or "I hope you'll") is used very much more than "I hope you are (you're) going to".

The number of hits is in the hundreds for the former, and only 10 for the latter.

CJ

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