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imperative mood: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" relating to verbs in the imperative mood some duty that is essential and urgent
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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In computer science, imperative programming, as opposed to declarative programming, is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of a program state and statements that change the program state. In much the same way as the imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands to take action, imperative programs are a sequence of commands for the computer to perform. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_(programming)
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used for commands: "You, slave! Carry this wine jar!"
Ãâó: encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Latin_grammar
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verb forms or sentence types that are used to express commands (eg Go away!)
Ãâó: www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/MTbook/HTML/node9...
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mood. Where a verb expresses a command:
Ãâó: www.baylorschool.org/academics/english/studentwork...
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