Imperative Mood
Imperative mood is mood that signals directive modality, especially in commands. Its use may be extended to signal permission.
An imperative verb is typically not inflected for most of the grammatical categories associated with verbs in a language, especially tense and person.
(English)
Here is an example of a construction indicating imperative mood:
- Come in!
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Related terms
- RT⇆ Command
- RT⇆ Grammatical Category
- RT⇆ Person Deixis
- RT⇆ Prohibitive Mood
- RT⇆ Tense
- RT⇆ Verb (Linguistics)
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