{"id":74365,"date":"2020-04-29T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74365"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:10:59","slug":"shall-as-a-modal-auxiliary-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/shall-as-a-modal-auxiliary-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall As A Modal Auxiliary Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Shall\u00a0<\/b>is a <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/modal-auxiliary-verbs\/\">modal auxiliary verb<\/a>. It is followed by an <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/infinitives-without-to\/\">infinitive without\u00a0<\/a><b>to.<\/b>\u00a0Shall has no<b>\u00a0\u2013s\u00a0<\/b>in the third person singular.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I shall be home soon.<\/li>\n<li>We shall invite them to dinner.<\/li>\n<li>I think I\u00a0<b>shall send\u00a0<\/b>him a wire.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>be leaving for Delhi tomorrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions and negatives are made without\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-do-and-does-for-emphasis\/\">do<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0we\u00a0<b>report\u00a0<\/b>this to the police? (<b>NOT\u00a0<\/b>Do we shall\u2026?)<\/li>\n<li>No, we\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>not. (<b>NOT\u00a0<\/b>We don&#8217;t shall.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>With the first person<\/h3>\n<p>In the first person\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0expresses simple futurity. It is used to show the strong possibility or near certainty of an action or event which is to take place in the future.<\/p>\n<h3>With the second or third person<\/h3>\n<p>In the second and third persons\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>may express a command.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You shall go at once. (= You are commanded to go at once.)<\/li>\n<li>He shall carry out my instructions. (= He is commanded to carry out my instructions.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes it is used to make a promise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He shall be given a present if he passes this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0may also express a threat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You shall regret this.<\/li>\n<li>They shall pay for this in due course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>is becoming increasingly less common in Modern English. Instead of using\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>in the second and third person to indicate a command, promise or threat, people often use other verbs and expressions.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<i>You shall go at once<\/i>, people often say\u00a0<i>You will have to go at once, You are to go at once\u00a0<\/i>or\u00a0<i>You must go at once.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Shall: Uses<\/h3>\n<h3>To make suggestions<\/h3>\n<p><b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0can be used with the first person pronouns (<b>I<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>we<\/b>) to make suggestions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don&#8217;t look well.\u00a0<b>Shall\u00a0<\/b>I call the doctor?<\/li>\n<li>It is very cold.\u00a0<b>Shall\u00a0<\/b>I close the window?<\/li>\n<li><b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0I drop you at the station?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>To talk about certainty<\/h3>\n<p><b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0can show certainty. It is used to say that something will certainly happen, or that you are determined that something will happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry. I\u00a0<b>shall be<\/b>\u00a0there to help you.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>shall clean\u00a0<\/b>the kitchen, no matter whether she likes it or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shall\u00a0is a modal auxiliary verb. It is followed by an infinitive without\u00a0to.\u00a0Shall has no\u00a0\u2013s\u00a0in the third person singular. I shall be home soon. We shall invite them to dinner. I think I\u00a0shall send\u00a0him a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2473,2826,2827],"class_list":["post-74365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-modal","tag-shall","tag-shall-as-a-modal-auxiliary-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74365","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74366,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74365\/revisions\/74366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}