<p>The museum is submitting proposals to several foundations in the hope [to gain] funds to built a tropical butterfly conservatory.
So there is no instance in which ‘hope to’ is correct?</p>
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<p>Of course there is. I hope to eat a berry.</p>
<p>^In that case in the hope’ is a noun, so you use ‘hope of gaining’
When the word ‘hope’ is used as a verb, you would then use “hope to gain”</p>
<p>(Example I read somewhere, from Crazybandit or Silver turtle)
“I hope TO GO to Harvard”
“I have hopes OF GOING to Harvard”</p>
<p>^I agree with your goal of finding straightforward “Gold Rules” that will help students identify high-frequency mistakes. You have made amazing progress in just one year. Keep up the hard work!</p>
<p>Thanks man. Good Luck to you.</p>
<p>I think redundancy, passive voice, and wordiness could be added to one of the golden rules, if not at least as high frequency errors.</p>
<p>^Could you post rules for that here?</p>
<p>Suleyman, you shouldn’t be so dogmatic and pretending to be knowledgeable by plagiarising another person’s work if you barely have a 600 in Critical Reading and Writing. :)</p>
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<p>This part, I wholeheartedly agree.</p>
<p>picayune.
It’s better to add several rules rather than wasting time.</p>
<p>if you, guys, are such “experts” in SAT help with sat rules to other “nonexperts”.</p>
<p>Ugh, why is this thread back up again? <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>I think these gold rules are so easy</p>
<p>made them hard if you want…hahahhaa</p>
<p>look on sparknotes 10 deadliest mistakes</p>
<p>HOPE TO is fine.</p>
<p>People… stop reviving this plagiarized thread pointlessly!</p>