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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Shall and will. Shall. and. will. Shall and will are two of the English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English. Historically, prescriptive grammar stated that, when expressing pure futurity (without any additional meaning such ...

  3. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  4. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    Modal verb. A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, suggestion, order, obligation, necessity, possibility. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. [1] In English, the modal verbs commonly used are can ...

  5. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    you’dn’t’ve. you would not have / you wouldn’t have. you’ll. you shall / you will. you’re. you are. you’ve. you have. ^ Ain’t is used colloquially by some speakers as a substitute for a number of contractions, but is considered incorrect by others.

  6. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The simple past or past simple, sometimes also called the preterite, consists of the bare past tense of the verb (ending in -ed for regular verbs, and formed in various ways for irregular ones, with the following spelling rules for regular verbs: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y ...

  7. Talk:Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    The weird thing of the prescriptive rule is the fact, that it views "I shall be there" as the first-person equivalent of "he will be there". But I think that it seems to be complicated oder even impossible, to find a form in English that exclusiovely and precisely defines simple futurity without volition or pbligation of the subject.

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  9. King asleep in mountain - Wikipedia

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    The king asleep in mountain (D 1960.2 in Stith Thompson's motif index system) [1] is a prominent folklore trope found in many folktales and legends.Thompson termed it as the Kyffhäuser type. [2]