hoped – English Grammar Profiler

Let’s look at how ‘hoped’ is used to make requests and orders less direct.  Even if we would usually say I hope + something happens, we can push the verb ‘hope’ into the past tense not to refer to time.  We often do tense shifts in English to express modality.  In this case, to express …

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Point 90 in MODALITY is defined as: ‘might’ in phrases, such as ‘as you might know’, ‘have already heard’, to focus the reader on shared knowledge. 1 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT , 6532 2 AS YOU MIGHT THINK . 3862 3 AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE , 3657 4 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED 2253 As …

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