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I have this vague memory of an old grammatical rule that says that "shall" is the first person form of "will". Thus, I shall, we shall, you will, he will, they will.
I have no illusions that this rule actually gets followed today. But what I want to know is, did I totally make this up, or was that actually a rule at one time? And is there a rule today, just to make us anal-retentive type-a grammar nerds happy?
(I did try searching the forum, but "shall" is a hard term to search on. "The following words are too common and were not included in your search: shall")
I have no illusions that this rule actually gets followed today. But what I want to know is, did I totally make this up, or was that actually a rule at one time? And is there a rule today, just to make us anal-retentive type-a grammar nerds happy?
(I did try searching the forum, but "shall" is a hard term to search on. "The following words are too common and were not included in your search: shall")