Imperative Grammatical Mood
An Imperative Grammatical Mood is a grammatical mood that forms a request.
- Example(s):
- “let's” ← “let us” (note that the meaning/usage changes on this contraction: let's go vs. let us be free.).
- "Please be quiet."
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Irrealis Mood, Conditional Mood, Grammatical Person, Cohortative, Jussive, Glossing Abbreviation, Contraction Process.
References
2018a
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood Retrieved:2018-6-6.
- The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
An example of a verb used in the imperative mood is the English sentence "Please be quiet". Such imperatives imply a second-person subject (you), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let him/her/them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called cohortative and jussive).
Imperative mood can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation . It is one of the irrealis moods.
- The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
2018b
- (Wiktionary, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperative_mood Retrieved:2018-6-6.
- 1. (grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order.