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2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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   Historically, prescriptive grammar stated that, when expressing pure futurity (without any additional meaning such as desire or command), shall was to be used when the subject was in the first person, and will in other cases (e.g., "On Sunday, we shall go to church, and the preacher will read the Bible.")

3. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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   The first of these sentences is a basic zero conditional with both clauses in the present tense. The fourth is an example of the use of will in a condition clause [4] (for more such cases, see below). The use of verb tenses, moods and aspects in the parts of such sentences follows general principles, as described in Uses of English verb forms.

4. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   Both A Comprehensive Grammar and Aarts use the term modal idiom for a choice of five. [31] [32] The Cambridge Grammar sees modal characteristics in all six uses of these two auxiliary verbs. [33] A Comprehensive Grammar calls both have got (I ' ve got to go now) and be to (You are to hand over the cash) modal idioms. [31] None of the other ...

5. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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   shall not (archaic) shan’ shall not shan’t: shall not she’d: she had / she would she’ll: she shall / she will she’s: she has / she is she'd'nt've (informal) she did not have / she would not have should’ve: should have shouldn’t: should not shouldn’t’ve (informal) should not have somebody’s: somebody has / somebody is someone’s

6. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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   Hawaiian, like the Polynesian languages generally, is an isolating language, so its verbal grammar exclusively relies on unconjugated verbs. Thus, as with creoles, there is no real distinction between modal auxiliaries and lexically modal main verbs that are followed by another main verb.

7. American and British English grammatical differences

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   However shall is still common in American legal documents. Shan't is typically regarded by Americans as a stereotypical British construction; in AmE, it is almost invariably replaced by won't or am/are/is not going to or their contractions. In both British and American grammar, would and should have different meanings.

8. Future perfect - Wikipedia

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   subject I + habré future of haber will have + hablado past participle spoken yo {} habré {} hablado subject + { future of haber } + {past participle} I {} {will have} {} spoken The future of haber is formed by the future stem habr + the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. The past participle of a verb is formed by adding the endings -ado and -ido to ar and er / ir verbs, respectively ...

9. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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   Use of present tense rather than future constructions in condition clauses and certain other dependent clauses is described below under § Conditional sentences and § Dependent clauses. The modal verbs will and shall also have other uses besides indicating future time reference. For example: