hope
part of speech
verb (hope, hopes, hoped, hoping); noun (hope, hopes); adjectives hopeful, hopeless
meaning for a pupil
1) To hope means to want something to happen and to think it could happen. tree →
2) Hope is the feeling that something good may happen. tree →
3) A hope is something you wish for. tree →
4) «I hope so» means I want it to be true; «I hope not» means I don't want it to be true. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life people say «I hope you feel better», «I hope it doesn't rain». In stories hope keeps characters going in hard times, and losing hope is a low point. Hope is different from knowing: in science and maths you check results instead of just hoping they are right. Phrases: hope for, hope so, hope not, high hopes, give up hope, lose hope, hope for the best.
examples
- I hope it will be sunny tomorrow. tree →
- I hope you feel better soon. tree →
- We hope to visit Grandma in the summer. tree →
- Don't give up hope; we'll find your cat. tree →
- Will we win? I hope so! tree →
- She has high hopes for the competition. tree →
- The lost hikers never lost hope. tree →
- I hope I passed my test, but I'll check my answers. tree →
- Hook was fighting now without hope. tree →
note
Regular verb: hoped, hoping (drop «e»). Patterns: «hope to + verb» (I hope to win), «hope that + sentence» (I hope that you win), «hope for + noun» (hope for good weather). «Hope» (something possible) is different from «wish» (often something not possible: I wish I could fly).
In the corpora
- Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants.
- Nobody can see the future, but people can hope, worry, and make choices that change what happens.
- Some hopes are big and serious: cures for diseases, help learning in any language.
- People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.
- But scientists must test carefully, because it is easy to see what we hope to see in an animal's answers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hope» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.