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I hope that you have a good time with her and everything is going according to your plans.
I am asking this question because I have an English test. I wonder whether I should put comma in both sentences, and I didn't put a comma before "and" in the first sentence because I thought if I did I would have to write it like this.
I hope that you have a good time with her, and I hope everything is going according to your plans.
Rather than "independent clause" I'd describe these as two coordinated clauses:
you have a good time with her
everything is going according to your plans
They are equal to each other and joined with the coordinating conjuction "and".
A comma is correct, but I'd consider it optional, as both expressions are subordinate to the "I hope" clause.
One possiblity is to say:
I hope that you have a good time with her, and that everything is going according to your plans.
Which more explicitly links the final clause back to "hope".
[1] I hope that [you have a good time with her] and [everything is going according to your plans.
[2] [I hope that you have a good time with her], and [I hope everything is going according to your plans.
In [1] the bracketed elements are a coordination of clauses functioning within the large content clause beginning with "that". No comma is required.
In [2] the bracketed elements are a coordination of independent clauses where the comma is optional but preferred.
