Hope vs Wish - Basic English Grammar

hello and welcome to this video in this lesson we're going to talk about the difference between hope and wish now I'm making this video because a lot of my students wanted to see something nice to me because I just got back from a three-week trip in Colombia so when I was coming back they wanted me to say something about my trip but here's what they said a lot of my students I was reading the comments and a lot of them said I wish you have a good trip and they heard a lot of these comments with wish and that's why we're going to talk about the difference between hope and wish of course I'm Jennifer from J first English comm and this channel is dedicated to helping you sound like a fluent confident natural English speaker now before we go any further make sure you subscribe and hit that Bell notification so you are notified every time I post a new lesson now let's dive in with this video in this lesson we're talking about the difference between hope and wish to very common verbs in English now remember at the beginning I said that a lot of my students wrote in the comments they wrote I wish you have a good trip I wish you have a good trip now although I really appreciate the sentiment this unfortunately is grammatically incorrect it sounds pretty terrible and that's because there's a confusion between the verbs hope and wish now before we go any further I want you to know that wish can be used in many different contexts grammatically but we're only going to talk about it in this one context ok so just keep that in mind we're not going to cover every single way that you can use the verb wish so let's talk about hope we use hope to talk about a future situation and you want something specific to happen in that future situation and we can use hope to express that desire that want for that future situation now remember that I just got back from a three-week trip in Colombia this is the perfect time to use hope now if one of your friends is going on a trip or they're at the airport or they have some sort of important upcoming event remember future event we use hope you can say I hope you have a great trip I hope you have a great trip and here you could say anything I hope your flight goes smoothly I hope your flight isn't delayed I hope you get there safely I hope you love Colombia or wherever they're traveling to I hope you have an amazing vacation so you can hope them many different things but we're going to use that for hope now we can use this in a more general context and we frequently use it to talk about the weather so let's say I have this important event tomorrow and it's outside I can say I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow I hope it's sunny tomorrow I hope it's hot tomorrow I hope it's cold tomorrow whatever you want the weather to be you can use hope to express a desire for a future situation now hope and wish are not interchangeable so we can't use wish in this situation but since right now it's December 23rd in two days it's Christmas it's the holiday season I'm hearing the verb wish used a lot so in this specific context we can use wish to talk about holidays or major events like a birthday a wedding anniversary any major event and we generally wish someone something that we want to have happen to them we wish them something positive in their life now for Christmas we generally just say I wish you a Merry Christmas I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and you could use this for other holidays as well I wish you a Happy Easter I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving you can use it for other holidays now in addition to just using this specific holiday name we also wish someone something specific like I could say I wish you all the success in the world and it's true I do I wish you all the success in the world so this is something that you could write on a card it could be a birthday card a graduation card a wedding card a holiday card any card for a major event you can wish someone I wish you all the success I wish you all the happiness all the joy all the love in the world that would be a really nice thing to say now New Year's is also coming up New Year's January 1st you're going to wish someone something as well I wish you prosperity in the new year I wish you love and joy and happiness in the new year so we use hope and wish in different contexts but let's also look at the sentence structure so let's bring up our example I hope you have a great trip I hope you have a great trip so here we have subject hope object I hope you and then we need a verb I hope you have I hope you get I hope it doesn't we need object and verb but let's compare that to wish I wish you a wonderful new year so here we have subject whish object so so far we're the same right I wish you but here's where it's different you wish someone something so after the object we don't want a verb I wouldn't say I wish you have a prosperous new year no it's object and then there's something then now I wish you all prosperous new year that's the something I wish you success success is the something so we can't use a verb after so just take note of the different sentence structures and make sure you're forming those sentences correctly alright so now you know how to use hope and wish correctly now there's one last thing for you to do and of course that's to practice so make sure you write two example sentences one using hope and one using wish and put them in the comments below if you found this video helpful please hit the like button share it with your friends and of course subscribe now before you go make sure you head on over to my website j4s English comm and download your free speaking guide in this guide I share six tips on how to speak English fluently and confidently and until next time happy studying I hope you enjoyed this video and I wish you all the success as a language learner ah you see I just want two sentences so I can't wait to read your examples in the comments below and until next time bye [Music] you

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 24 2019