Imperative mood  

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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 Template:Sc. It is one of the irrealis moods.

References

  • Austin, J. L. How to do things with words, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1962.
  • Schmecken, H. Orbis Romanus, Paderborn, Schöningh 1975, Template:ISBN.




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