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**Tdol** · #1 06-Oct-2003, 22:05

Which is correct if you're making a suggestion?

**RonBee** · #2 21-Oct-2003, 23:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdol

Which is correct if you're making a suggestion?

The first one. The second one is a question (and an odd one), not a suggestion.

:)

**Tdol** · #3 23-Oct-2003, 12:23

It is a question, but there are situations where it wouldn't seem so odd- a couple, for instance, where only one knew the travel plans.

silver_queen · #4 10-Aug-2006, 20:08

why shall? i always hear word will...anyway shall isn't used anymore:D

Teia · #5 10-Aug-2006, 22:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by silver_queen

why shall? i always hear word will...anyway shall isn't used anymore:D

Hi,

Shall is still used in English grammar :
"Will" means willingness and it is also the mark of "future tense"
"Shall" is used when making suggestions or when I am ready to do smth. in the future but this not my "will" or my" wish".

e.g.
Conversation:

Mother :Jane, will you help me with the dishes,please?
Jane : yes, mom, I will [ it`s my will ; I`ll do it because I want]
If you use " shall" instead of "will" in the previous sentence, the meaning is different.

Regards,

Mad-ox · #6 20-Aug-2006, 17:39

In my opinion both variants are correct:
will we go? - someone asks us if we intend to go in the future
shall we go? - someone asks us in a polite way if we want to go which may be in the future or in the present

mykwyner · #7 21-Aug-2006, 00:24

Good posting!

This is one of the few instances where shall continues to exist in common vernacular English.

I think that the phrase Shall we dance? and its variants will remain in conversational English long after other uses of shall have disappeared.

Genius86 · #8 02-Sep-2006, 04:42

Helllooooo.........

if u say "will we go?" here it's a question when you are not sure whether you'll go or not and the answer is with Yes or NO

Shall we go? here you are 100% sure that you will go but you suggest for the listener to go at this moment....

Regards,
Genius86

Qasem · #9 27-Oct-2006, 19:54

the first one becuase we might go and it has stronger meaning than the other one.

juliette woolley · #10 20-Feb-2007, 11:04

although I wrote 'shall ' I do hear Scots say 'will' when other anglophones would say 'shall'