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’ll: Short Forms Of Shall And Will
Spoken English: In speaking, shall and will are usually contracted to ’ll, especially after
subject pronouns I, we, you, they, she, he, it:
We’ll meet you outside the coffee shop.
more common in speaking than We will meet you outside the coffee shop
WILL AND SHALL: USES PREDICTIONS
We use will and shall to make predictions and to state facts about the future:
• There will be strong winds tomorrow in the south of the
country.
• The year 2025 will be the four-hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the university.
• We shall need an extra bedroom when the new baby arrives. DECISIONS AND OFFERS
Will and shall usually in the short form ’ll are used to announce decisions and to make offers:
[a salesperson in a clothes shop is talking to a customer] A: Which size do you want? Medium or large?
B: I’ll have large. decision • Wait. I’ll open the door for you. offer
Not: Wait. I open the door for you.
• I shall contact you again when I have further information. SHALL WITH I AND WE
We can use shall instead of will with I and we in statements. Its use is more formal:
We shall never forget the holiday we had in Vietnam.
When we use shall I and shall we in questions it is usually to make suggestions rather than to refer to future time:
It’s getting late. Shall we go home? Shall I invite Louisa and Jill to the party?
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4 WOULD WOULD: FORM
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
“would” comes first in the verb phrase after the subject and before another verb:
Dad would sing to us every evening.
Would cannot be used with another modal verb:
When Tracy opened the door, she thought she would find an empty
room. Not: … she thought she would might find an empty room. or … she
thought she might would find an empty room.
NEGATIVE FORM
The negative form of would is wouldn’t. We don’t use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t with would:
There wouldn’t be any food in the house.
Not: There didn’t would be any food in the house. We use the full form would not in formal contexts or when we want to
emphasise something:
Your father would not approve. QUESTION FORM
The subject and would change position to form questions. We don’t use do, does, did:
Would that be a good idea?
Not: Does this would that be a good idea?
Wouldn’t that be a good idea?
We can use would and wouldn’t in question tags:
She wouldn’t be any help, would she? They would enjoy that, wouldn’t they?
