Grammar Girl here, this episode concerns your future, whether you should use Shao or

Will.

Guest writer Bonnie Tranker writes, there are two sets of rules, the stickler version and

the people's version.

There's also the British version and the American version.

The stickler version and British version line up pretty well with each other.

Tradition holds that you use Shao to indicate the future if you're using first person, I or

Will, and Will if you're using second or third person, you, he, she, or they.

So in England, it would be perfectly normal to say, I shall have tea with my grandmother

tomorrow.

In America, that was out odd.

We Americans would be more likely to have coffee and to say, I will take my grandmother

out for a latte tomorrow.

The British traditionally use Shao to express determination or intention on the part of

the speaker or someone other than the subject of the verb.

Others offers an example from British author Evelyn Wa, quote, one day you shall know

my full story, end quote.

This does seem to offer a different connotation than one day you will know my full story.

It makes the author sound more determined, however, using Shao in this way isn't common

in America.

In America, Will has replaced Shao in all but a few cases.

If you use Shao in the British way during normal conversation, you might end up sounding

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