perhaps – 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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A2 Point 13 in the category of MODALITY/adverbs: certainty and possibility (‘maybe’, ‘perhaps’), before a clause or ellipted clause. *Note that ‘maybe’ is also listed at A1. And ‘perhaps’ is A2 in the EVP regardless of position. An iWeb search for: . maybe|perhaps * * * 1 . MAYBE IT ‘S BECAUSE 2541 2 . …

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B1 CONFIRMING: refer to a previous direct or indirect ‘yes-no’ question where the answer might be ‘yes’.
In the English Grammar Profile in the category of conditional CLAUSES