{"id":74367,"date":"2020-04-29T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74367"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:13:46","slug":"shall-vs-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/shall-vs-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall vs. Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Expressing simple future<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/shall-as-a-modal-auxiliary-verb\/\">Shall<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>can be used with\u00a0<b>first person\u00a0<\/b>pronouns (I, we) to express simple future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0discuss the matter with them.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>write to him.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>invite them for dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the\u00a0<b>second<\/b>\u00a0(you) and\u00a0<b>third\u00a0<\/b>person (he, she, they, it) pronouns, we use\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/uses-of-will\/\"><b>will<\/b><\/a>\u00a0to express simple futurity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am sure he\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0come.<\/li>\n<li>The train\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>leave at 7:30 pm.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>be at university soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Showing determination<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Will<\/b>\u00a0can be used with first person pronouns to express ideas such as determination, willingness, promise, threat etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>not surrender. (Determination)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>do it, whatever happens (Determination)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0teach you a lesson. (Threat)<\/li>\n<li>Yes, I\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0lend you my car for the day. (Willingness)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With\u00a0<b>second<\/b>\u00a0(you) and\u00a0<b>third\u00a0<\/b>person (he, she, they) pronouns,\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0can be used to express similar ideas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>get a medal if you stand first. (Promise)<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>be given a present if he passes this year. (Promise)<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>shall\u00a0<\/b>go at once. (Order)<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0pay for this in due course. (Threat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Notes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The distinction between\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0is now strictly observed only by precise speakers.\u00a0<b>Shall<\/b>\u00a0is becoming increasingly less common with second and third person pronouns. In the first person, however,\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0is still used to indicate the simple future.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation, people generally use the shortened form\u00a0<b>\u2019ll<\/b>\u00a0which may be a contraction of either\u00a0<b>shall<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>will<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>We\u2019ll<\/b>\u00a0invite them for dinner.<\/li>\n<li><b>I\u2019ll\u00a0<\/b>be going to Mumbai tomorrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing simple future Shall\u00a0can be used with\u00a0first person\u00a0pronouns (I, we) to express simple future. We\u00a0shall\u00a0discuss the matter with them. I\u00a0shall\u00a0write to him. We\u00a0shall\u00a0invite them for dinner. With the\u00a0second\u00a0(you) and\u00a0third\u00a0person (he, she, they, it) pronouns,&#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":[2826,2828,1808],"class_list":["post-74367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-shall","tag-shall-or-will","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74367","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=74367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74368,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74367\/revisions\/74368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}