As palavras comuns "maybe" e "perhaps" significam o seguinte : ---> que algo é possível ou que algo pode ser verdade. Example:Maybe I can get the yard mowed before it rains. There were approximately 55 people there when I left. ( You can say, " Perhaps I can get the yard mowed before it rains. There were approximately 55 people there when I left.It means the same.") |
---> usado para evitar dar uma resposta clara ou certa a uma perguntaExample:Are you still going to join the singing contest? "Maybe."You can also say, " Are you still going to join the singing contest? Perhaps.It means the same." |
---> também pode ser usado para apresentar uma possível explicaçãoExample: I thought maybe my phone messages had scared him off.You can say, I thought perhaps my phone messages had scared him off.(As mensagens telefônicas que ele recebeu não eram boas, por isso ele estava com medo. ) |
Britânica no Inglês palavra "perhaps" é pronunciado como se segue: /praps/. |
"Hope" significa querer que algo aconteça ou seja verdadeiro. |
Using : ---> I hope, geralmente usamos um tempo presente com um significado futuro. ExampleI hope Karen comes to work. You can also say, I hope Karen will come to work. It means the same. |
--->Colocamos "not" com o verbo que vem após hope em frases negativas.ExampleI hope Gary does not mess up the celebration. ( We do not say: I don't hope Gary mess up the celebration.) |
--->Usos especiais de tempos passados : 1. Para apresentar um pedido educado , podemos usar a frase como " I was hoping." ExampleI was hoping you can accompany me to the clinic later today. |
2. Espera por coisas que não aconteceram (Hopes for things that did not happen) , Podemos dizer o seguinte: " I had hoped."ExampleI had hoped that my parents didn't work abroad and left us, but they did. |
Hopefully significa full of hope ou hoping. .ExampleTheir father said they were not allowed to have a puppy until they were older but we saw them sitting hopefully outside the pet shop. |
Costumamos usar hopefully na posição anterior para dizer o que desejamos ou gostaria de acontecer.ExampleHopefully, the economic problems in the country will not get any worse. |