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Help the exhausted film director complete her frantic text messages to the producer by choosing the correct substitution words.
Director: "Is the lead actor going to storm out of his trailer again today?"
Producer: "I suppose _________________________. He was complaining about the coffee."
Director: "Have they fixed the spaceship's lighting yet?"
Producer: "I _________________________. The electrician just left for an extended lunch."
Director: "Are we going to go over budget on this scene?"
Producer: "I desperately _________________________! The studio will definitely cancel us."
The correct answers are so, doubt it, and hope not.
After verbs of thinking and believing (like suppose, guess, think, assume), we use so to substitute for an entire that-clause.
The verb doubt is an exception. It does not take so; instead, it takes it to refer back to a previous clause or idea.
With the verb hope, the negative substitution is formed by using hope not. Making the main verb negative (I don't hope so) is grammatically incorrect in English.