To foretell, or to express future time simply, the auxiliary shall is used in the first person, and will in the second and third; but when a speaker determines or promises, he uses will in the first person and shall in the second and third.
CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.
I will freeze, if I do not move about.
You shall feel better soon, I think.
She shall be fifteen years old to-morrow.
I shall find it for you, if you shall bring the book to me.
You will have it, if I can get it for you.
He will have it, if he shall take the trouble to ask for it.
He will not do it, if I can prevent him.
I will drown, nobody shall help me.
I will be obliged to you, if you shall attend to it.
We will have gone by to-morrow morning.
You shall disappoint your father, if you do not return.
I do not think I will like the change.
Next Tuesday shall be your birthday.
You shall be late, if you do not hurry.
LESSON 96.
ERRORS IN THE FORM OF THE VERB.
CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.
+Model+.—Those things have not came to-day.
Wrong, because the past came is here used for the past participle come. The present perfect tense is formed by prefixing have to the past participle.
I done all my work before breakfast.
I come in a little late yesterday.
He has went to my desk without permission.
That stupid fellow set down on my new hat.
Set is generally transitive, and sit is intransitive. Lay is transitive, and lie is intransitive.