24 Dec. 1815

Chrestom. or Language

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Ch.5 Verb

Tense

'. Shall and Will

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Case 2. Case in which shall is the word employed.

1. First person singular I shall perish. Intimation not given that the event is dependent on the will of the speaker.

2. Second person singular Thou shalt perish.

3 Third person singular He, she, or it shall perish. Intimation given in these two cases that the event is dependent on the will of the speaker.

4. First person plural We shall perish. Intimation not given.

5. Second person plural Ye shall perish. Intimation given.

6. Third person plural They shall perish. Intimation given.

In a jest book story, the mode in which a foreigner is apt to make a mistake in the application of these two words, is presented in a half-disastrous, half-ludicrous, point of view. The stranger has fallen into the water, and he cries out to the bystanders, "I will be drowned."

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