Shall Vs WIll

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Shall Vs WIll

by sandy217 » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:27 am
Opening with tributes to jazz-age divas like Bessie Smith and closing with Koko
Taylor's electrified gravel-and-thunder songs, the program will trace the blues'
vigorous matriarchal line over more than 50 years.

(A) the program will trace
(B) the program shall trace
(C) there will be a program tracing
(D) it is a program that traces
(E) it will be a program tracing

This is already discussed in many posts
My question is y "will" is preferred to"shall"?

Someone said "shall" is not idiomatic, Attributing everything to idioms seriously undermines the confidence of a non native speakers :(

Please point out,if we have any rule pertaining to this?
Source: — Sentence Correction |

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by abhi.genx7 » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:56 am
:)
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by niksworth » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:16 am
Shall vs will is a source of eternal confusion and debate. For further details refer to -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_and_will

I don't think GMAT will test a sentence solely on the difference between shall and will.

That being said, A is definitely better sounding than B.
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