"Shall," and "Will": Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs |
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... future act ? " but " which " verb must we use when we intend to express futurity , and nothing more ? " Now it is not always easy to isolate , as it were , this simple notion of futurity , and separate it from the shades of mean- ing ...
... future act ? " but " which " verb must we use when we intend to express futurity , and nothing more ? " Now it is not always easy to isolate , as it were , this simple notion of futurity , and separate it from the shades of mean- ing ...
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Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs Sir Edmund Head. 66 66 6 66 6 5 6 ... future tense offers , no doubt , what Dr. Latham calls " a logical , not an ... simple form which expresses time , or other modifications of sense by mere ...
Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs Sir Edmund Head. 66 66 6 66 6 5 6 ... future tense offers , no doubt , what Dr. Latham calls " a logical , not an ... simple form which expresses time , or other modifications of sense by mere ...
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... simple future is not acknowledged in common parlance , nor always observed even in written composition . For instance , Chalmers wrote , " I am able to devote as much time “ and attention to other subjects as I will be under " the ...
... simple future is not acknowledged in common parlance , nor always observed even in written composition . For instance , Chalmers wrote , " I am able to devote as much time “ and attention to other subjects as I will be under " the ...
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... simple future , which they ought not to do with the first person . " I would never more lift up my face " may possibly be right , inasmuch as it may mean " I " should choose the alternative of hiding myself " from the world . " Both ...
... simple future , which they ought not to do with the first person . " I would never more lift up my face " may possibly be right , inasmuch as it may mean " I " should choose the alternative of hiding myself " from the world . " Both ...
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... simple state- ment of the future fact with the first person . On this principle it is that the answer of an Irish servant when told to do a thing- " I shall , Sir " - is incorrect . " Shall , " no doubt , is right as the future , but ...
... simple state- ment of the future fact with the first person . On this principle it is that the answer of an Irish servant when told to do a thing- " I shall , Sir " - is incorrect . " Shall , " no doubt , is right as the future , but ...
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