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I was reading a novel and I read this sentence:
He had not hoped to get more than four hundred seeds.
What I want to ask about is should not the verb hoped be in the present tense because it follows not?
I was reading a novel and I read this sentence:
He had not hoped to get more than four hundred seeds.
What I want to ask about is should not the verb hoped be in the present tense because it follows not?
"not" doesn't determine tense. The sentence is fine.
The verb after NOT. 
The sentence is fine.
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