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The use of expect means “to expect” and is usually a transitive verb, so don’t be influenced by Chinese and add the preposition for after it. e.g. We can’t expect success overnight.
误当前位置我们不应该期望一夜成功。
正：我们不能指望一夜成名。
02
Use infinitives instead of gerunds. I didn’t expect to find you here. If required by semantics, it can also be followed by infinitive composite structures. Such as: He expected her to go with him. He expected her to go with him.
03
Don’t think that expect only means “expect” and “expect”, it can also mean “expect” and “expect”, etc. For example: I expect a storm. I expect a storm to come. I expect that I will be back on Sunday.
Sometimes it can be used in a bad way. He expects to fail the exam. He doesn’t expect to pass the exam.
Also, note the idiomatic expression expect a baby, which means“To be pregnant.”. T’s public knowledge she’s expecting a baby.
04
Then you can follow that clause. If the predicate of the clause is negative, pay attention to the transfer of negation. For example, I don’t expect that he has done such a thing I don’t expect him to In spoken language can be said “think” or “representations”.
I expect you’re tired.I guess you’re tired.This can be followed by that clause, but not the clause led by the question word, and if there is an interrogative word, use a sentence such as “question word + do you expect…”
