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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Shall uses
Is shall used in modern english ,and what are these uses
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AnonymousIs shall used in modern English ...?If you are living in the U.S., you will sometimes hear shall in a suggestion posed as a first person question, thus:
Shall we meet again next Tuesday?
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If you live in the UK and you have a grammar book from the 1970s, it may say:
- The faultless idiomatic use of will and shall are regarded as infallible tests of the English speaker. It offers peculiar difficulties to Scots, Irishmen and Americans
But no, fifty years on, I think we just say 'will', almost always
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If you live in the UK and you have a grammar book from the 1970s, it may say:
- The faultless idiomatic use of will and shall are regarded as infallible tests of the English speaker. It offers peculiar difficulties to Scots, Irishmen and Americans
But no, fifty years on, I think we just say 'will', almost always
I'll post some smiley faces, by
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