Pomozcie proszę!!! Volition

[muzomaniaczka]

Potrzebuję mieć na jutro regułkę po angielsku co to jest Volition.W żadnej z
moich książek na poziomie advanced nic nie ma,w słowniku Oxfordu jest jedno
krótkie zdanie niezbyt na temat a w necie jakoś nie mogę znaleźć.Wiem,ze to
dotyczy will i shall,ale nie wiem jak to po angielsku wszystko wytłumaczyć,a
potrzebuję takiego raczej książkowego opisu tego.Prosze o pomoc!!!!

Everything I do is of my own volition

[paper_mate]

1. an act of making a choice or decision; also a choice or decision made
2. the power of choosing or determining

[enlightened]

The simplest definition would be: "free will".

Here's an article that discusses the difference between "free will"
and "volition":

withchrist.org/volition.htm

[hanula]

"In Old and Middle English times shall and will were sometimes used to express
simple futurity, though as a rule they implied, respectively, obligation [shall]
and volition [will]. The present prescrbed use of these words, the bane of many
an American and Northern British schoolchild, stems ultimately from the
seventeenth century, the rules having first been codified by John Wallis, an
eminent professor of geometry at Oxford who wrote in Latin a grammar of the
English language (Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae, 1653.). The rule is... to
express a future event without emotional ovetones, one should say I shall, we
shall, but you/he/she/they will; conversely, for emphasis, willfulness, or
insistence, one should say I/we will, but you/he/she/they shall... Despite a
crusade of more than three centuries on behalf of the distinction, the rule for
making it is still largely a mystery for most Americans, who get along very well
in expressing futurity and willfulness without it."
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/ling290/badEnglish.html

Will, shall. "Shall" is very fast going the way of "whom". I am not quite so
willing to say "good riddance" in this case as I am with "whom," because a
subtle and useful shade of meaning is being lost here, and because when it has
finally been lost, English literature from past times will be read with less
understanding. However, there is no doubt that "shall" and "should" can now, in
all but a small number of artificial constructions, pretty much be dispensed
with in spoken American English. This is not news: H.L. Mencken in The American
Language (1949) said that "except in the most painstaking and artificial
varieties of American" the distinction between shall/should and will/would "may
almost be said to have ceased to exist". There is a large literature on this,
which you can read for yourself. Not only Mencken, but also Follett (Modern
American Usage) and Fowler (Modern English Usage) give over acres of space to
it. Here I am only going to apologize--or rather, decline to apologize--for my
own inconsistency. Those same teachers who hammered "whom" into my infant head
also taught me the shall/will rules, and some of what they taught stuck. I hear
myself say: "I should be sorry to see...," "They shan't trick me..." and
similar things, naturally and unselfconsciously, at least to the point where my
American listeners break out in smiles. If you can't be bothered to read
Fowler, Follett, Mencken etc. (and if you can't, I don't blame you), the root
difference between "shall" and "will" is that the first carries a flavor of
obligation, the second a flavor of volition. My schoolmasters used to tell us
the story of two drowning men. The first had fallen into the river accidentally
and was struggling for his life. "I shall drown!" he cried out in desperation.
"Nobody will save me!" The second, however, was a suicide, determined to quit
this life. He deliberately threw himself into the most treacherous part of the
current, and as he went down for the third time was heard to shout: "I will
drown! Nobody shall save me!" That only scratches the surface, though, as you
will see if you read Follett etc. Early 21st-century Americans have clearly
decided that they have better things to do with their time than memorize
pettifogging distinctions of this kind, and on balance, with the slight
reservation entered in my first sentence, I think they are wise to have done so.
olimu.com/Notes/CorrectEnglish.htm

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