WILL vs SHALL: NOUN
- The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action.
- Self-control; self-discipline.
- The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
- A fixed and persistent intent or purpose
- Diligent purposefulness; determination.
- An abbreviation of the personal name William.
- A legally executed document containing this declaration.
- A legal declaration of how a person wishes his or her possessions to be disposed of after death.
- Bearing or attitude toward others; disposition.
- Free discretion; inclination or pleasure.
- Deliberate intention or wish.
- A legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- A desire, purpose, or determination, especially of one in authority.
- An African siluroid fish of the genus Synodontis; specifically, S. schal of the Nile, a kind of catfish with a small mouth, long movable teeth in the lower jaw, a nuchal buckler, and six barbels. Also schal.
WILL vs SHALL: VERB
- Leave or give by will after one's death
- Decree or ordain
- Have in mind
- Determine by choice
- Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense, particularly in the first person singular or plural.
- Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation, particularly in the second and third persons singular and plural.
- Used in questions to suggest a possible future action.
- To owe.
WILL vs SHALL: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To decide on or intend.
- To yearn for; desire.
- To decree, dictate, or order.
- To induce or try to induce by sheer force of will.
- To grant in a legal will; bequeath.
- To order to direct in a legal will.
- To exercise the will.
- To make a choice; choose.
- N/A
WILL vs SHALL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Astray; wrong; at a loss; bewildered.
- A As an independent verb.
- To wish; desire; want; be willing to have (a certain thing done): now chiefly used in the subjunctive (optative) preterit form would governing a clause: as, I would that the day were at hand. When in the first person the subject is frequently omitted: as, would that ye had listened to us!
- Would in optative expressions is often followed by a dative, with or without to, noting the person or power by whom the wish may be fulfilled: hence the phrases would (to) God, would (to) heaven, etc.
- To have a wish or desire; be willing.
- B. As an auxiliary, followed by an infinitive without to.
- To make (it) a habit or practice (to do, etc.); be (am, is, are, etc.) accustomed (to do, etc.); do usually: noting frequent or customary action.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) determined (to do, etc.): said when one insists on or persists in being or doing something; hence, must, as a matter of will or pertinacity; do (emphatic auxiliary) from choice, wilfulness, determination, or persistence.
- To communicate or express a wish to; desire; request; direct; tell; bid; order; command.
- To wander; go astray; be lost, at a loss, or bewildered.
- In all its senses the auxiliary will may be used with an ellipsis of the following infinitive.
- [Would is often used for will in order to avoid a dogmatic style or to soften blunt or harsh assertions, questions, etc.
- In such constructions will is sometimes found where precision would require shall. See shall, B., final note.
- In future and conditional constructions, to be (am, is, are, etc.) (to do, etc.): in general noting in the first person a promise or determination, and in the second and third mere assertion of a future occurrence without reference to the will of the subject, other verb-phrases being compounded with the auxiliary shall. For a more detailed discrimination between will and shall, see shall, B., 2.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) ready or about (to do, etc.): said of one on the point of doing something not necessarily accomplished.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) sure (to do, etc.); do undoubtedly, inevitably, or of necessity; ought or have (to do, etc.); must: used in incontrovertible or general statements, and often, especially in provincial use, forming a verbphrase signifying no more than the simple verb: as, I'm thinking this will be (that is, this is) your daughter.
- To wish, want, like, or agree (to do, etc.); to be (am, is, are, was, etc.) willing (to do, etc.): noting desire, preference, consent, or, negatively, refusal.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate requirement or command.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate intention.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate customary or habitual action.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate capacity or ability.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate probability or expectation.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate willingness.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate likelihood or certainty.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate simple futurity.
- (idiom) (at will) Just as or when one wishes.
- (transitive; intransitive verb) To wish; desire.
- Am (is, are, was, etc.) obliged or compelled (to); will (or would) have (to); must; ought (to): used with an infinitive (without to) to express obligation, necessity, or duty in connection with some act yet to be carried out.
- B. As an auxiliary.
- A. As an independent transitive verb. To owe; be indebted or under obligation for.
- As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; ; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; ; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. “I shall go” implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic “I will go.” In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, “Shall you go?” (answer, “I shall go”); “Shall he go?” i. e., “Do you require or promise his going?” (answer, “He shall go”.) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as “You say, or think, you shall go;” “He says, or thinks, he shall go.” After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted.
- To be obliged; must.
- To owe; to be under obligation for.
- Synonyms Ought, Should. See ought.
- The distinctions in the uses of shall and will and of should and would are often so subtle, and depend so much upon the context or upon subjective conditions, that they are frequently missed by inaccurate speakers and writers, and often even by writers of the highest rank. There is a tendency in colloquial English to the exclusive use of will and (except after a conditional word) would. See will..
- Should was formerly sometimes used where we should now use might.
- The past tense should, besides the uses in which it is merely the preterit of shall, as above, has acquired some peculiar uses of its own. In some of these uses should represents the past subjunctive, not the past indicative. It is not used to express simple past futurity, except in indirect speech: as, I said I should [wasto] go; I arranged that he should [was to] go, Should is often used to give a modest or diffident tone to a statement, or to soften a statement from motives of delicacy or politeness: thus, ‘I should not like to say how many there are’ is much the same as ‘I hardly like,’ or ‘I do not like,’ etc. Similarly, ‘it should seem’ is often nearly the same as ‘it seems.’
- Shall, like other auxiliaries, is often used with an ellipsis of the following infinitive.
- In the older writers, as for instance in the authorised version of the Bible, shall was used of all three persons.
- After conditionals, such as if or whether, and after verbs expressing condition or supposition, shall expresses simple futurity in all persons, the idea of restraint or necessity involved originally in the word shall being excluded by the context—thus:
- Interrogatively, shall or will is used according as the one or the other would be used in reply, and accordingly ‘shall I go?’ ‘shall we ho?’ ‘shall he go?’ ‘shall they go?’ ask for direction, or refer the matter to the determination of the person asked—that is, ‘shall I go?’ anticipates the answer ‘you shall go.’
- Certainty or inevitability as regards the future.
- Determination; as, you shall go.
- Command: as, thou Shalt not steal;
- Promise; as, you shall receive your wages;
- Am (is, are, was, etc.) to (do something specified by the infinitive): forming verb-phrases having the value of future and conditional tenses, and usually (and properly enough) called such.
- In the second and third persons shall implies authority or control on the part of the speaker, and is used to express
- (auxiliary verb) Something that will take place or exist in the future.
- (auxiliary verb) An order, promise, requirement, or obligation.
- (auxiliary verb) The will to do something or have something take place.
- (auxiliary verb) Something that is inevitable.
- (auxiliary verb) To be able to.
- (auxiliary verb) To have to; must.
- (auxiliary verb) Used before a verb in the infinitive to show.
WILL vs SHALL: RELATED WORDS
- Gonna, Needs, Plans, Intend, Ought, Expected, Wants, Intends, Wil, Volition, Testament, Bequeath, Leave, Wish, Shall
- Needs, Namely, Only, Establishes, Ensures, Advised, Supposed, Gonna, Gotta, Determines, Requires, Required, Viz, Ought, Will
WILL vs SHALL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Let, Goes, Gonna, Needs, Plans, Intend, Ought, Expected, Wil, Volition, Testament, Bequeath, Leave, Wish, Shall
- Doit, Require, Needs, Namely, Only, Establishes, Advised, Supposed, Gonna, Gotta, Determines, Required, Viz, Ought, Will
WILL vs SHALL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- For such phrase, the opposite person will either say yes or no with a proper reasoning.
- If you do not retrieve your files within this time frame, will have to pay for your records again.
- If the police came to the scene, there will be a police report.
- But whoever shall think of carrying an appeal across seas he shall be admitted to communion by no one in Africa.
- Such parenting time, however, shall be arranged so that the custodial parent shall have religious holidays, if celebrated, in alternate years.
- The fuel component shall be analyzed quarterly and adjustments shall be made as necessary.
- When two or more amendments shall be submitted they shall be voted upon separately.
- Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines shall not be imposed, and cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted.
- Each insurance policy required above shall provide that coverage shall not be canceled, except with noticeto the Entity.
- No act hereafter passed shall embrace more than one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
- The board shall keep records of its actions, which shall at all times be open for public inspection.
- No bill shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
- He shall receive such annual salary as shall be prescribed by law.
WILL vs SHALL: QUESTIONS
- Will circcircuit Breakers fit Cutler Hammer panels?
- What cabinet positions will require Senate approval?
- When will lithium-sulfur batteries be commercialized?
- Will gasoline powered cars ever completely disappear?
- Do Libertarian existentialists believe in free will?
- When will Western Sydney International Airport open?
- When did will to power's'will to power'become popular?
- Will 270 electors reject the will of the voters to avoid Trump?
- What will be the last app update my iPad 3 will receive?
- Will wind chill warnings mean schools will be closed?
- Which header shall define the timeval structure in Linux?
- Apakah Shall, Will, and would bisa digunakan secara bebas?
- What information shall be recorded on the switching sheets?
- Who shall constitute the nomination and Remuneration Committee?
- Which wire shall the Inspector coordinate inspection for?
- Which method of deflection measurement shall be reported?
- How shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free?
- What does this mean'what here shall miss our toil shall mend'?
- Who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved?
- Will all shall be named and none shall remain nameless?