Re: The rain shall/will have stopped

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Re: The rain shall/will have stopped

Tony Mountifield

22 May 2009 12:20

> "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

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JerryS	22 May 2009 07:49
"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.

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