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."
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Conditional Grammatical Mood.
• See: Irrealis Mood, Conditional Mood, Grammatical Person, Cohortative, Jussive, Glossing Abbreviation, Contraction Process.

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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.

2018b

• (Wiktionary, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperative_mood Retrieved:2018-6-6.
  • 1. (grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order.

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