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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]
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.
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) Reply
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A singer might be able to hold the "ne-e-e-ver", but I don't think many other people could do (hence "never, never, never"). The will/shall bit has always confused me... I think they're interchangeable depending upon who is singing it and where. Wiki-Ed 08:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC) I have a copy with "never" three times, and shall instead of will.
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