Chai Tea wrote:I thought shall was only used for "I" or "we"
sooooo.....why is it nonsense?
It's nonsense, CT, because that simply isn't how English works. In the 17th and 18th centuries prescriptive grammarians strove to outdo one another to see who could create the most ludicrous rules for English.
There were some real dillies; the split infinitive; don't start a sentence with and/but/because; don't end a sentence with a preposition; don't use 'which' for restrictive clauses; he/his/him as a gender neutral pronoun; ...
They deemed rules correct based on what they thought language should be, not what language actually is. of course, such a position is ludicrous. The only way to see how language is used is to, what else, study how language is used.
A quick exact phrase google clearly illustrates just how big a lie that old canard is.
Results 1 - 10 of about 5,620,000 English pages for "he shall".
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,780,000 English pages for "she shall"
Results 1 - 10 of about 8,030,000 English pages for "they shall".
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,740,000 English pages for "you shall".
Results 1 - 10 of about 15,200,000 English pages for "it shall".
Results 1 - 10 of about 17,100,000 English pages for "I shall".
Results 1 - 10 of about 22,800,000 English pages for "we shall".