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Imperative mood   /ɪmpˈɛrətɪv mud/   Listen
Imperative mood

noun
1.
A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior.  Synonyms: imperative, imperative form, jussive mood.





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"Imperative mood" Quotes from Famous Books



... dreamed of this moment, but always in an imperative mood, as the masterful young lover, and now he felt humble, touched, trembly. He was afraid to stir off his knees lest he should break the spell; lest, if he did, she should shrink and deny her own surrender—so tremulous was she in his grasp, with her eyelids closed and his lips nearing them. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the verb is in the Infinitive Mood, Gerund, or Imperative Mood,[78] the Conjunctive Pronoun must follow, and is joined to the verb to form ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano


Words linked to "Imperative mood" :   mood, mode, modality, imperative form, imperative


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