will/shall

Kim & Rima McKinzey rkm at SLIP.NET
Thu Jan 25 22:20:38 UTC 2001


>Shall we leave?
>#Will we leave?  [OK, but not as a suggestion]

"Shall we leave?" sounds odd to me, but "Shall we go?" does not.  And
right off hand I can't think of any other situation in which shall
would be used in normal conversation.

Rima



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