{"id":1791,"date":"2017-01-27T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:50:55","slug":"volitive-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/volitive-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Volitive future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You shall hear<\/strong> your father\u2019s story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tense used in the above sentence is not simple future but volitive future.<\/p>\n<p>In volitive future<strong>, shall<\/strong> takes the place of <strong>will<\/strong> and<strong> will<\/strong> takes the place of <strong>shall.<\/strong> Normally we use shall with first person pronouns and will with second and third person pronouns to express simple futurity. In volitive future, we use shall with second and third person pronouns and will with first\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">person pronouns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The volitive future expresses the will of the speaker. We use it when we make a promise. It is also used in commands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Complete the following sentences using <strong>will or shall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">1. \u2018Peter \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. have a bicycle,\u2019 father promised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. I \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 work harder.<\/p>\n<p>3. You \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. be rewarded for your hard work.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u2018You \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. obey me,\u2019 the headmaster said.<\/p>\n<p>5. He \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. be here soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u2018<strong>Peter shall<\/strong> have a bicycle,\u2019 father promised.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>I will<\/strong> work harder.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>You shall<\/strong> be rewarded for your hard work.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>\u2018You shall<\/strong> obey me,\u2019 the headmaster said.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>He shall<\/strong> be here soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following sentence. You shall hear your father\u2019s story. The tense used in the above sentence is not simple future but volitive future. In volitive future, shall takes the place of will and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-volitive-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}