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  2. Imperative mood - Wikipedia

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    When written, imperative sentences are often, but not always, terminated with an exclamation mark. First person plural imperatives ( cohortatives ) are used mainly for suggesting an action to be performed together by the speaker and the addressee (and possibly other people): "Let's go to Barbados this year", "Let us pray".

  3. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    An imperative sentence makes a command: "Be my friend!" An exclamative or exclamatory sentence raises an exclamation: "What a good friend you are!" The form (declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamative) and meaning (statement, question, command, or exclamation) of a sentence usually match, but not always.

  4. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    Whether a listener is present or not is sometimes irrelevant. It answers the question: "Why has this been said?" The five basic sentence forms (or "structures") in English are the declarative, interrogative, exclamative, imperative and the optative. These correspond to the discourse functions statement, question, exclamation, and command ...

  5. Exclamation mark - Wikipedia

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    A sentence ending in an exclamation mark may represent an exclamation or an interjection (such as "Wow!", "Boo!"), or an imperative ("Stop!"), or may indicate astonishment or surprise: "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" Exclamation marks are occasionally placed mid-sentence with a function similar to a comma, for dramatic effect ...

  6. English interjections - Wikipedia

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    From the point of view of pragmatics, English interjections typically have exclamatory or imperative force; for example, ouch! is an exclamation expressing the speaker's pain and hush! issues a demand for the addressees to become silent.

  7. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo ...

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    Reed–Kellogg diagram of the sentence. The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are: a. a city named Buffalo. This is used as a noun adjunct in the sentence; n. the noun buffalo, an animal, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes" or "buffalos"), in order to avoid ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  9. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. [1] [2]: 181 [3] That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement of fact, of desire, of command, etc.).