Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this lesson, I'm going to talk about some differences between shall and will.

Let's get started with shall.

Shall, before I start, shall is going to sound more formal than will.

There are some cases where you can use shall and will to make the same kind of grammatical

structure.

And when you use shall in those cases, it's going to sound more formal than will.

We don't tend to use shall so much in American English.

It's not incorrect, but just remember that you're going to sound perhaps

too polite sometimes if you use shall. So with that in mind, let's take a look at the

first pattern I want to talk about. First pattern is subject plus shall. So subject plus shall

plus some other information, So not a question.

When you use this subject first followed by shall, that's the basic structure for making

a statement, a statement. So you're not asking for any information. You're just stating something. Let's look at some examples.

Here, I shall call the police. I shall call the police. So this is a statement. In this

case, maybe someone is shouting this. I shall call the police. So this is a decision this person

has probably just made and they're stating

it loudly but politely in this case. I shall call the police. Let's look at the next example.

He shall attend the meeting. He shall attend the meeting. Again, a statement. It sounds polite

because shall has been used, and we're probably sharing

this information with like the meeting planner, for example, or someone related to the

meeting.

He shall attend the meeting.

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