Shall and Will
Shall and Will There are many common grammatical errors that people tend to mess up on today. ... Two words that have similar meanings that are commonly misunderstood are the words shall and will. The words shall and will have attracted a great deal of attention from usage commentators over the years. At first, shall was considered the only correct word to use for the expression of simple future tense in the first person. Over the years will has slowly been replacing shall in most common English literature. Only in a couple of expressions is it necessary that shall be used, such as: Shall we go? and Shall I help you? ... Besides these few rare cases, will is just as correct to use in a sentence as shall is. Over the years any people have tried to make rules concerning the uses of shall and will, but in the end have seemed to rely on the basic concept that if it sounds right, then it is right.