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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Thus shall may be used (particularly in the second and third persons) to imply a command, promise or threat made by the speaker (i.e., that the future event denoted represents the will of the speaker rather than that of the subject). For example: You shall regret it before long. (speaker's threat) You shall not pass! (speaker's command)

  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. 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 ...

  5. Future perfect - Wikipedia

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    For example: She will have fallen asleep by the time we get home. I shall have gone by then. Will you have finished when I get back? The auxiliary is commonly contracted to ' ll in speech and often in writing, and the first part of the perfect infinitive is commonly contracted to ' ve in speech: see English auxiliaries and contractions.

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  7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    – "Examples of the can-can dance that other examples of the same dance are able to outshine, or figuratively to put into the trashcan, are themselves able to outshine examples of the same dance". It could alternatively be interpreted as a question, "Is it possible for examples of the dance that have been outshone to outshine others?"

  8. American and British English grammatical differences

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    The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns (for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team). For instance, BrE: SuperHeavy is a band that shouldn't work or First Aid Kit are a band full of contradictions; [6] [7] AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

  9. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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    The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns (for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team). For instance, BrE: SuperHeavy is a band that shouldn't work or First Aid Kit are a band full of contradictions; [49] [50] AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.