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Significats de optative mood en anglès

A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs.

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        Examples for "optative"
        1
        Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        2
        Or the indicative in place of the optative, as (I. ii.
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        3
        And, on the contrary, the optative for the indicative, as (I. v. 388):-
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        4
        Fondness for optative in indirect constructions, i.
        The Gospels in the Second Century / An Examination of the Critic...
        5
        It is masculine, feminine, and neuter in gender, singular by nature, and generally accusative, and it is optative in mood and full of acute accents.
        In the Palace of the King: A Love Story of Old Madrid
        Ús de optative mood en anglès
        1
        Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        2
        The Imperative and Optative moods clearly do not convey assertions at all, while the Subjunctive can only figure as a subordinate member of some assertion.
        Deductive Logic
        3
        "For lovers," he said sagely, "are either in the optative mood, the desperative, or the exultative." This time he had used the optative.
        Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic,...