 | Education - 1919 - 826 pages
...Information. Shall and will are both auxiliary verbs denoting futurity or futurity and determination. Shall in the first person and will in the second and third denote only futurity; will in the first person and shall in the second and third denote futurity plus... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett, Howard Lee McBain - English language - 1906 - 360 pages
...earth. " Shall" and " Will," " Should" and "Would."— It has already been observed that shall is used in the first person and will in the second and third to denote mere futurity. Whenever it is desired to convey the idea of determination, however, will is... | |
 | Frank H. Vizetelly - English language - 1906 - 252 pages
...importance." shall, will : " Often erroneously interchanged. In general simple futurity is expressed by shall in the first person and will in the second and third, while determination is expressed by will in the first and shall in the second and third. In interrogations... | |
 | Ellis Publishing Company - 1906 - 262 pages
...looking for you. She might go. They could not come. The future tense is indicated by the auxiliary, shall, in the first person and will in the second and third. EXAMPLES. — I shall be sick. We shall not arrive by noon. You will not see him. They will not go.... | |
 | Harriet Eve Crandall - English language - 1908 - 290 pages
...will," but "you shall," and "he shall." That is, when you are discussing simple future occurrences, you use "shall" in the first person, and "will" in the second and third. When you are expressing, determination or authority, you use "will" in the first person, and "shall"... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 1909 - 454 pages
...and Shakespeare's " mark you his absolute shall? " 260. In Modern English the future is expressed by shall in the first person, and will in the second and third, but this usage is comparatively recent. Matzner remarks with regard to it : " If the import of both... | |
 | Annie Webb Blanton - English language - 1909 - 148 pages
...tense of the auxiliaries " shall " and " will " to the present infinitive of the notional verb, using " shall " in the first person, and " will " in the second and third persons. The present perfect tense is made by prefixing the present tense of the auxiliary " have "... | |
 | Deaf - 1919 - 850 pages
...— run. ' ] will — run shall fall will fall ( shall — fall '( will — fall Shall is always used in the first person and will in the second and third, to express futurity. Sentence drills in tense may be arranged in the following way : to have 1. I (now) a new... | |
 | Carroll Davidson Wright - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1190 pages
...There are two futures: (1) The simple future, which denotes only the futurity of an event. In it we use shall in the first person and will in the second and third. Simple Future. — Singular: First person, I shall go; second person, Thou wilt po or You will go;... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - English language - 1910 - 300 pages
...CONTROL OF THE WILL As a person should not promise anything that he cannot control, it follows that "shall" in the first person, and "will" in the second and third persons, should be used to express a condition beyond the control of the will; as, Promise or determination... | |
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To express simple futurity, use shall in the first person and will in the second and third persons... 
