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To: Elsie

~”If you do not wish to waste your valuable time reading it; don’t.”~

Oh, don’t worry, that part’s already sorted.


247 posted on 12/29/2007 2:58:59 PM PST by tantiboh
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For an earlier post that questioned the verbiage that a temple shall be built in Missouri in the 1900’s, here’s what the Jack Lynch “Guide to Grammar and Style” says about shall vs. will:

An old distinction, more common in British than in American English, still comes up from time to time. To wit: will is usually the simple future indicative: “This will happen,” “You will be surprised.” Shall is related to the subjunctive, and means “Let it be so,”

see http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/s.html


258 posted on 12/29/2007 3:17:04 PM PST by webboy45
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