Fill the blanks in the following sentences with shall or will:

  1. I think I —— find the work easy.
  2. I —— probably be refused, but I —— go anyway.
  3. —— you be busy to-night? Yes, I —— be in class until ten.
  4. I —— probably fail to pass the examination.
  5. If no one assists me, I —— drown.
  6. No. I —— never sell my library.
  7. If I fail I —— be obliged to take an examination.
  8. —— my men begin work to-day?
  9. —— you stop at Chicago on your way West? No, I don't, think I ——.
  10. —— you promise me to sing at the concert to-night? Yes, I —— sing to-night.
  11. —— I put more wood on the fire?
  12. I —— be lost; no one —— help me.
  13. It —— be there when you need it.
  14. It is demanded that the pupils —— be orderly and attentive.
  15. I think it —— rain soon.
  16. We —— be disappointed.
  17. —— we be permitted to go?
  18. We —— do it for you.
  19. —— I go or remain at home?
  20. I —— be very grateful to you if you —— do this.
  21. If you —— ask her, she —— go with you.
  22. If you —— stop, I —— go with you.
  23. Where —— we join you?
  24. I think we —— be there in time.
  25. I —— go to the river for a boat ride.
  26. When —— you be twenty years of age?
  27. —— we ever see you again?
  28. Perhaps we —— return next year.
  29. We promise, we —— return.
  30. You —— probably suffer for it.
  31. I —— not impose on you in that way.
  32. —— I ask for your mail?
  33. I hope that we —— be there before the curtain rises.
  34. —— they probably be there?
  35. —— you please fetch me a paper?
  36. —— we stop for you on our way downtown?
  37. When —— I find you in your office?
  38. They —— never do it if I can help.
  39. You —— do as I say.
  40. I —— never, never, go there again.
  41. We —— decide what to do about that at our next meeting which —— be in October.
  42. —— it make any difference to you?
  43. —— I go with you?
  44. No, you —— please stay here.
  45. He —— never enter this house again.
  46. It is believed that they —— probably be present.
  47. He fears that he —— die.
  48. He requests that you —— come to-day at seven o'clock.
  49. She asks that it —— be sent at once.
  50. It is thought that his death —— not seriously change things.
  51. It is believed that the emperor —— have to retract.
  52. A story is told that —— gain little credence.
  53. I fear that I —— take cold.
  54. She says that I —— take cold.
  55. They say that they —— do it in spite of anything done to prevent.
  56. He is determined that he —— go away.
  57. She is determined that he —— go to school.
  58. They say they —— probably not go.
  59. John thinks he —— probably live to be past sixty.
  60. He tells me that he thinks that he —— be elected.
  61. They say that they —— meet you.
  62. They assure us that we —— find good stores in Berlin.
  63. He says he fears he —— miss his train.
  64. Wright says his father —— become famous.
  65. He writes that he —— be here to-day.
  66. Do you say that you —— be present?
  67. The book says that —— be wrong.
  68. Does she say that she —— come?
  69. I told you that I —— not come.
  70. I tell you that she —— not come.
  71. He says that he —— go as a matter of duty.
  72. John says that —— not happen anyway.
  73. Does he say that he —— surely come?
  74. Does John write what he —— promise to do in the matter?
  75. —— you be sure to be there?

Exercise 47

Write five sentences in which shall is used in an independent clause, and five in which shall is used in a dependent clause.

Write five sentences in which will is used in an independent clause, and five in which will is used in a dependent clause.

Write five interrogative sentences in which shall is used and five in which will is used.

68. Should and Would. Should and would are the past tenses of shall and will, and have corresponding uses. Should is used with I and we, and would with other subjects, to express mere futurity or probability. Would is used with I and we, and should with other subjects, to express conditional promise or determination on the part of the speaker. Examples:

Futurity:

I should be sorry to lose this book.
If we should be afraid of the storm, we should be foolish.
It was expected that they would be here.

Volition or determination: