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Both shall and will may be contracted to -'ll, most commonly in affirmative statements where they follow a subject pronoun. Their negations, shall not and will not, also have contracted forms: shan't and won't (although shan't is rarely used in North America, and is becoming rarer elsewhere too). See English auxiliaries and contractions.
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.
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The context is shall vs will. "Shall I open a window?" is an offer to help the other person. "Will I open a window?" is the simple future, as if the other person weren't there. It's thus an inappropriate response to "It's hot in here." I'm thus uncomfortable with the following paragraph, which advises never using shall if you don't understand
In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.
Jesus: 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.' Jesus appeared in Jerusalem to the eleven disciples and others as they stood talking. Jesus repeated that everything written about him in the Scriputes had to be fulfilled.
Pilate: 'What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?' Crowd: 'Crucify him!' Pilate: 'What crime has he committed then?' Crowd, louder: 'Crucify him!' Pilate released Barabbas, had Jesus flogged and abducted. Luke 23:13–25. Pilate tells chief priests and rulers: 'I've found Jesus not guilty, neither has Herod.