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Crisi
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 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: Shall - I thought ? |
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Please, could you tell me if the following sentence is correct?
"Shall I call the police?, I thought.
How would you say it?
Thank you very much in advance. |
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LunaCat
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's not correct because in a question the verb goes before the subject and so : Shall call I the police? "shall" has the same meaning of "will" it's the future. |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| LunaCat wrote: |
| I think it's not correct because in a question the verb goes before the subject and so : Shall call I the police? "shall" has the same meaning of "will" it's the future. |
Actually, "shall" is a modal, so it follows the same pattern as "can"
"Can I call the police?"
"Shall I call the police?" In American English, this is about the same as "Should I call the police?" I don't know about British etc. English.
Therefore, in American English, I think it would be possible to say, "Shall I call the police?" I thought. |
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Crisi
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you both for answering. |
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