Sobre "maybe" e "perhaps"

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 pergunta

Example:

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 explicação

Example: 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.

Example

I 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.

Example

I 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."

Example

I 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."

Example

I had hoped that my parents didn't work abroad and left us, but they did.

Hopefully significa full of hope ou hoping. .

Example

Their 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.

Example

Hopefully, the economic problems in the country will not get any worse.