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Usenet Posted 17 years ago
English in UK

The rain shall/will have stopped

"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped."

Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all registers?
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[/nq] In that sentence, I think it should be "will". The rules I learnt at school were: Normal: I shall, you will, he will. Emphatic: I will, you shall, he shall.

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  • [/nq] In that sentence, I think it should be "will".
  • The rules I learnt at school were: Normal: I shall, you will, he will.
  • Emphatic: I will, you shall, he shall.
  • But I think nowadays the difference with the first-person is being eroded in colloquial speech.
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[nq:1]"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped." Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all registers?[/nq]
In that sentence, I think it should be "will".
The rules I learnt at school were:
Normal: I shall, you will, he will.
Emphatic: I will, you shall, he shall.
But I think nowadays the difference with the first-person is bei
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