Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I HOPE SO! and I HOPE NOT!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I hope so. The English phrase, I hope so, is a phrase we use when we really want something to happen. Let's say you're watching a game and your favorite team is playing. If someone asked you this question, "Do you think your team will win?" You would probably respond by saying, "I hope so." Let's say you're taking an English test and someone asks you this question. "Do you think you'll pass the test?" You would most likely respond by saying, "I hope so." So it's another way of saying, yes, but you're emphasizing it a little bit. You're saying that you really, really hope that whatever is going to happen will happen.

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The second phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase, I hope not. And this is completely the opposite. This is when you don't want something to happen. Let's say you're watching a game and someone says, "Do you think your team will lose?" You'll say, "I hope not." Let's say you're taking an English test. And someone says, "Do you think you'll fail?" You would say, "I hope not." So when you don't want something to happen and you want to emphasize it, you would use the phrase, I hope not.

So to review, when you really, really want something to happen, you say, "I hope so." And when you really don't want something to happen, you say, "I hope not."

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from DK. Cool glasses. And my response was, I found out later they were my daughter's sunglasses. I thought they were mine.

These are mine. I felt kind of silly after the last video, because I was wearing those sunglasses. And I kept thinking I was wearing my nice, cheap, Dollar Store sunglasses. By the way, the Dollar Store is way up there, where you can buy sunglasses for $1, or $2, or maybe $3 at the most. So I was wearing these really cool sunglasses in the last video. And I was basically, in my mind, thinking that they were mine, but they weren't. These are actually mine. These are not my daughters.

What ended up happening was my daughter borrowed my camera bag last fall. And she left her sunglasses in a pocket in the side. And when I found her sunglasses in my camera bag, they kind of looked like mine. And so, I just assumed they were, but they weren't.

So anyways, enough about my sunglasses. I'm once again out here in town. I don't have to show you. I was pointing out earlier that we have a Dollar Store. The interesting thing about Dollar Stores in Canada is that eventually they won't be Dollar Stores. They used to charge $1 for everything. And then eventually, they had some things that were $2. And now, I think they're going to charge as high as $5 for some items. Everything seems to be getting more expensive here in Canada. I'm sure it's true around the world as well. I'm not sure where it's all going to end.

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