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Meanings of imperative mood in English

Portuguese
imperativo
Spanish
imperativo

A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior.

        imperativo
        Usage of imperative mood in English
        1
        There was something nice, after all, in the imperative mood, she thought.
        A Little Traitor to the South / A War Time Comedy with a Tragic ...
        2
        She used from habit, even to her father, the imperative mood affirmative.
        Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
        3
        The captain's word is law; he never speaks but in the imperative mood.
        White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
        4
        But the party leaders talked to me in the imperative mood.
        Political Recollections / 1840 to 1872
        5
        He too may fairly use the imperative mood of the verb to love.
        English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
        6
        Remember the imperative mood of these words, "SEEK first the Kingdom of God."
        Addresses by Henry Drummond
        7
        Has the verb to love really an imperative mood?
        English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
        8
        My lord appeared to be in the imperative mood,-somethingto which she had not been accustomed.
        For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the ...
        9
        The habitual non-use of the imperative mood.
        Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
        10
        Now to such a person the imperative mood of the verb to love may fairly be used.
        English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
        11
        And then, warming up to an imperative mood, he made this explicit announcement: We are at War.
        The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6
        12
        He won't preach many more such, ( imperative mood) him.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        13
        We didn't know what a Ketosh was, but it sounded more like something in the imperative mood than anything ethnological.
        In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
        14
        Therefore, it would be a more proper form of this sacrament if the imperative mood were employed, so as to say: "Be this My body."
        Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
        15
        The Imperative Mood may be used for if.
        How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition
        16
        "He shall make you an apology"-imperativemood him.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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        Translations for imperative mood
        Spanish
        imperativo
        Imperative mood across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common