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- From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
- Subject: Will vs. Shall
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:06:44 GMT
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- Questions about the use of the verb "will" vs. the verb "shall"
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- - What's the difference? Many people in America apparently don't
- know and use "will" in all cases. My intuitive guess was that
- "shall" was subjunctive. Lately I've been told that they are the
- same verb, except that "shall" is used for the first person and
- "will" in other cases. This sounds correct to me. Is it true?
-
- -Can the abbreviation apostrophe l l ('ll) be used to abbreviate
- both "will" and "shall," or just "will"?
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- Dennis Brennan
- djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
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