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This paper analyzes the declining use of the modal verb "shall" between 1960 and 1993 based on data from the Brown Corpus, LOB Corpus, and British National Corpus. The study found a drastic decline in the use of "shall" over this period, particularly in American English. However, the decline was less pronounced in British English. Female users were also found to be more resistant to this change than male users. The paper used corpus analysis tools to examine trends in the use of "shall" based on factors lik

Author

Robert Hutchinson

Language

EN