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Discussion Groups / British English / May 2009The rain shall/will have stopped
"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped." Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all registers? Thanks. > "By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped." > > Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all > registers? In that sentence, I think it should be "will". The rules I learnt at school were: Normal: I shall, you will, he will. Emphatic: I will, you shall, he shall. But I think nowadays the difference with the first-person is being eroded in colloquial speech. Cheers Tony  SignatureTony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org |
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