* The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p. First, there’s nothing wrong with how you’ve used ‘hopefully,’ as a whole sentence modifier that means ‘it is hoped that’ or ‘I hope.’ Some people used to argue that ‘hopefully’ should only be used to mean ‘in a hopeful way,’ as in The boy looked at the ice cream truck hopefully. The words soon and is conflict with one another. The important point here is simply that the future tense need not be used in a content clause following hope in order for that content clause to be interpretable as future-oriented. If you say soon, that means the event will happen in the future. The present tense in a content clause following hope can receive a nonfuture interpretation. It is, of course, possible to hope for things to be a certain way at a time simultaneous with one's hoping. That is, I hope he gets well means I hope he will get well.
2 The New Yorker Despite repeatedly criticizing Clintons 'stamina' in recent weeks, Trump was cautious on the topic of the former secretary of states health on Monday, saying in an interview: 'I hope she gets well soon'. The song describes a sentiment I feel towards a dear friend of mine so perfectly Im so grateful to Depeche mode for writing something so beautiful, insightful and gracious. In other words, you don't need to say something like I hope he gets better by then in order for gets to be equivalent to will get.Įven if you dropped soon from your sentence, the interpretation of the content clause following hope would be a future one. 1 The Guardian 'I hope she gets well soon,' he said.
Huddleston and Pullum* observe that the present-tense in a content clause following hope allows for a "pragmatically unrestricted" future interpretation. Let your heart work its way to the meaning of this miraculous experience, and when the time is right. I was, however, curious enough to research the point, and I have just confirmed that my immediate sense was correct: there is no difference in meaning between the two. I'm not quite there yet, but hopefully soon. My immediate sense was that there was absolutely no difference in meaning between the two.
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