Hope + would

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Mighty Joseph  #514935  Sat, 17 May 08 05:47 PM
Hello... Can somebody help me this?

"I hope you'd be successful." (would be...)
Is this correct? Because I know the subjunctive hope can also work with the modal verb would, meaing that the speaker is expressing the suppostional and unreal nature of that hope. Please help me. I am a little confused with the subjunctive use of hope. I've read a lot of materials and each of them says a different thing about the usage of hope in the "subjunctive" sense. Thanks!  

  
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Yoong Liat  #514943  Sat, 17 May 08 06:09 PM

Hi Joseph

I'd write I hope you will be successful.

  
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Mighty Joseph  #514946  Sat, 17 May 08 06:13 PM
Yeah, thanks! But some writers say that the "will" after hope is completely anomalous in grammar.  Don't we say instead, " I hope you be successful."? And in which context can I possibly have the combination hope + would? Is this combination possible sometimes? Thanks again... 
  
Yoong Liat  #514956  Sat, 17 May 08 06:54 PM

Mighty Joseph
Yeah, thanks! But some writers say that the "will" after hope is completely anomalous in grammar.  Don't we say instead, " I hope you be successful."? And in which context can I possibly have the combination hope + would? Is this combination possible sometimes?
'I hope you be successful' is correct, but rarely used. 'I hope you are successful' is correct.

I hoped you would succeed. (hoped + would).

  
Grammar Geek  #514958  Sat, 17 May 08 07:00 PM

Hi - and welcome to English Forums.

I hope you succeed. (I don't see anything wrong with "I hope you will succeed," but "I hope you succeed" is fine.)

I hope you will be successful.

I HAD hoped that you would have successed.

I hope you be successful sounds mighty odd to me.

  
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Mighty Joseph  #515895  Tue, 20 May 08 02:17 AM
wow! thanks a lot for your help...
  
Yoong Liat  #516485  Wed, 21 May 08 11:45 AM

I hoped you would succeed. (hoped + would).

I hoped you would be successful. (hoped + would).

  
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