ABSTRACT
15.1(1). To express volition emphatically and unambiguously we have the fully inflected verb will (OE willian), which is distinct from the auxiliary will (a) by its flexion, (b) by its syntactic construction, and (c) by being used chiefly, if not exclusively, in literary style.
Flexion: 3rd sg present: willeth, wills
pret. and participle: willed
inf. and imper.: will
first participle: willing (with to and an inf., to be considered an adj. rather than a real participle; the meaning is not quite that of the vb will, but 'having no objection'.
