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Studying Shall with the Help of Corpus Data
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Studying Shall with the Help of Corpus Data 1 Introduction In this essay I will discuss the use of shall. How frequent and important is it when making statements and asking questions about the future? To begin with, I will introduce material from different grammar books. To make the structure clear, I will discuss the uses in statements and questions separately. Furthermore, I will also distinguish the uses with 1st person subjects from the uses with 2nd and 3rd person subjects. In section 3, I will go on to examine a random sample of 50 examples of shall gathered from the British National Corpus online search facility. 2 Description of shall in the grammars Shall is a modal auxiliary verb which goes with the infinitive in all persons. Leech (1987, 88-89) argues that the speaker has authority in statements with shall, but in questions, the authority is in the hands of the hearer. In...
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