questions on grammars

[diplomacy]

I shall call you before 7 o'clock.

shall used instead of will why?

in phrasal verbs is it correct to say:

turn off light

turn off it

 

[theeexcellence]

I shall call you before 7 o'clock.

shall used instead of will why?

in phrasal verbs is it correct to say:

turn off light

turn off it

"Shall" has been used since "I" takes "shall" and not "will".

"Will" will be used when it is sure that "I" will call.

So

I will call you before 7 o'clock.
means that
I surely will call .... and that it is necessary. May be because there is something important going on.

Whereas

I shall cal you before 7 o'clock.
means that
I shall call you before this time but still it could be a few minutes earlier or later.

NOT A TEACHER

 

[TheParser]

I shall call you before 7 o'clock.

shall used instead of will why?

in phrasal verbs is it correct to say:

turn off light

turn off it

***** NOT A TEACHER *****

Good afternoon, diplomacy.

(1) I believe that in the United States, people prefer to say: Turn it off.

("Turn off it" is not idiomatic in the United States. Idiomatic = the way most people speak.)

It is probably better to say:

Fill it out
Wake her up
Throw them away
Pay me back
Put them on
Write it down
Take them off

Have a nice day!

 

[Barb_D]

With phrasal verbs, you can usually have a noun before or after the preposition.

Turn off the light. Turn the light off.
Look up the word. Look the word up.
Show off my new ring. Show my new ring off. (This one sounds a bit odd.)

However, when you use a pronoun, it goes between the verb and the preposition.

Turn it off. Look it up. Show it off.

(Some phrasal verbs don't allow words to come between the verb and the preposition, but I'm having trouble thinking of any right now.)