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Lex Steel Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Hoping to

which one is correct?

1. waiting and hoping to see you online

2. waiting and hoping see you online.

please answer in detail
  

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Hello, Lex - and welcome to English Forums. You need 'to': wait to, hope to . There is no detail to give you since you have not given us anything but 2 isolated sentence fragments.

— Mister Micawber

  • Hello, Lex - and welcome to English Forums.
  • You need 'to': wait to, hope to .
  • There is no detail to give you since you have not given us anything but 2 isolated sentence fragments.
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Hello, Lex - and welcome to English Forums.

You need 'to': wait to, hope to. There is no detail to give you since you have not given us anything but 2 isolated sentence fragments.
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Hi,

Who waits and hopes to see you? These are not sentences.

The first "sentence" will be correct if you add a subject to it. If you don't, it is incorrect.

Regards
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And it needs a verb, too.
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Mister MicawberAnd it needs a verb, too.
It needs an auxiliary verb.

Regards
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Not necessarily, Regards. It does need a finite verb of some kind, but it needn't incorporate either 'hoping' or 'waiting'.
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