It’s used when you want something to happen but there’s nothing you can do to help make it happen, you can only hope “i heard we might win the game this weekend!” “one can only hope” One can only hope is what we call a colloquialism It can be expanded like this based on the speakers conversation If we buy this ticket we could win the prize Typically meaning many things in four short words
Speaker 2 is expressing to speaker 1 the only way they can influence the situation The two speakers can just hope or wish that. Can only hope/wait etc from longman dictionary of contemporary english can only hope/wait etc used to say that it is not possible to do more than hope etc we can only hope it won’t rain on the day → only examples from the corpus can only hope/wait etc • we can only wait and help each other and watch this dreadful plague spread. Kindly explain me about one can only hope What does it mean and how can we use
The meaning of only wish/want/hope is —used to stress that someone's wishing/wanting/hoping something is the simple truth How to use only wish/want/hope in a sentence. Examples of only hope in a sentence, how to use it I only hope to emulate his goodness
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