"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped."

Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all 
registers?

Thanks.

In article <gv63hq$bnu$1@aioe.org>, JerryS   wrote:
> "By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped."
> 
> Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all 
> registers?

In that sentence, I think it should be "will".

The rules I learnt at school were:
Normal: I shall, you will, he will.
Emphatic: I will, you shall, he shall.

But I think nowadays the difference with the first-person is being eroded
in colloquial speech.

Cheers
Tony
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