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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Shall

In earlier days we used the word shall in future same as will but now we are not using this.. So tell me where we use shall now the days. I heard once that we are using shall according to the should verb form.. Tell me how.
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) You often hear it now in polite conversation: Shall I pour you another cup of coffee? (You're right. It's more or less equivalent to Should I pour you another cup of coffee?

  • ) You often hear it now in polite conversation: Shall I pour you another cup of coffee?
  • (You're right.
  • It's more or less equivalent to Should I pour you another cup of coffee?
  • )
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(I still use it the old way!) Emotion: embarrassed

You often hear it now in polite conversation: Shall I pour you another cup of c
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"Shall" is still used in formal legal documents to mean "obligation."
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There was no future tense in Old English. When the simple future tense developed and shall and will began to be used to express futurity, it was felt more polite to use will in the second and third persons (you, he, she, it they) because its meaning had been 'to want' and it was understandably more polite to indicate that the person one was talking to wanted to d

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