shall
Definition of shall:
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part of speech: verb
Shall and will are often confounded by inaccurate speakers or writers, and even writers such as Addison sometimes make a slip. In quoting the following lines from a song in Sir George Etherege's " She Would if she Could" ( 1704), Mr. R. Grant White says. " I do not know in English literature another passage in which the distinction between shall and will and would and should is at once so elegantly, so variously, so precisely, and so compactly illustrated.
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part of speech: verb
An auxiliary and defective verb; one of the two signs employed to express futurity, will being the other; in the first person shall simply foretells or declares; in the second person and third person it promises or expresses determination; interrogatively, shall either asks for permission or for direction; shall, like will, apart from its othersenses, uniformly denotes futurity.
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Common misspellings:
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- sha (0.7%)
- sal (0.7%)
- sahll (1.4%)
- shll (4.3%)
- sould (0.7%)
- shallbe (2.1%)
- sha'll (1.4%)
- shal (71.6%)
- samll (0.7%)
- shalll (1.4%)
- sall (10.6%)
- shull (1.4%)
- hsall (1.4%)
- sahall (1.4%)
Usage examples for shall:
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Shall I go in that room?"
"Cy Whittaker's Place" – Joseph C. Lincoln -
" Well, what shall I be?
"We Girls: A Home Story" – Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney -
What shall I do with you then?
"Fighting for the Right" – Oliver Optic -
" I shall miss them," I said.
"The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill" – Winston Churchill
