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Originally Posted by RonBee The word hope is always about the future. Thus, you can say I hope we get a native English speaker to come to our house, but you can't say I hope we have a native English speaker at our house. You can't hope you have something. (Even when the sentence in question concerns a past event ("I hope you did well") the word hope is still about the future in that it is about expectations.)  |
hope isn't so much about the future as about the unknown
if you don't know how your team did, you can hope they did well
if you know they did poorly, you can wish they had done better
i think he was trying to say "How i wish we had a native English speaker in our house"