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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Generally, however, will is far more common than shall. Use of shall is normally a marked usage, typically indicating formality or seriousness and (if not used with a first person subject) expressing a colored meaning as described below. In most dialects of English, the use of shall as a future marker is viewed as archaic. [9]

  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. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The auxiliaries shall and should sometimes replace will and would in the first person. For the uses of these various verb forms, see English verbs and English clause syntax . The basic form of the verb ( be, write, play ) is used as the infinitive , although there is also a "to-infinitive" ( to be , to write , to play ) used in many syntactical ...

  5. Future tense - Wikipedia

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    The will/shall future consists of the modal verb will or shall together with the bare infinitive of the main verb, as in "He will win" or "I shall win". ( Prescriptive grammarians prefer will in the second and third persons and shall in the first person, reversing the forms to express obligation or determination, but in practice shall and will ...

  6. Talk:Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    And suggests this is an example of the use of shall as a simple future marker. (i.e. that "we will.") But it also works with the use of shall to imply obligation. (i.e. that "we must.") So it's not really evidence of one use, as opposed to the other. 138.88.18.245 18:22, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

  7. V2 word order - Wikipedia

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    In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order [1] is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position, so that the verb is preceded by a single word or group of words (a single constituent).

  8. Second-degree amendment - Wikipedia

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    A second-degree amendment would amend the original amendment to insert the words "in South Nashville". "South" would be the secondary amendment. In this manner, the motion would then amend the text to read: "That the organization purchase a facility in South Nashville for the purpose of continuing operations."

  9. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    Some other languages use different classifying systems, especially in the plural pronouns. One frequently found difference not present in most Indo-European languages is a contrast between inclusive and exclusive "we": a distinction of first-person plural pronouns between including or excluding the addressee.