Dictionary Entry

shall

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈʃæl/Used In Literature ↓

(modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

In a Sentence

“I hope that we shall win the game.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “shall”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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The lads you leave will mind you
Till Ludlow tower shall fall.

Here we have a snowman, a snowman, a snowman!
Oh, where does he come from, and what shall be his name?
He says his name is no man, no man, no man!

A choice of friends one knows,
And I shall ne'er be lonely
Asleep with these or those.

And there, from whence we both were ta'en,
You and I shall drown again.

With hurts not mine to mourn for
And shames I shall not know.

And go, and luck go with you
While Ludlow tower shall stand.

'O young man, O my slayer,
To-morrow you shall die.'

May will be fine next year as like as not:
Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

Years, when you lay down your ill,
I shall stand and bear it still.
Courage, lad, 'tis not for long: