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Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts) Sat Aug 23, 2014, 02:29 PM Aug 2014

Grammar: the imperative mood [View all]

" Imperatives are used principally for ordering, requesting or advising the listener to do (or not to do) something" (wiki)

If someone asked advice, and one replied " do this", what would you obviously think the imperative was used for?

(see http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=148090) (that was a suggestion, not a demand)

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	Ordering (a demand)
	0 (0%)
	Requesting
	0 (0%)
	advising the listener to do (or not to do) something
	3 (75%)
	Pie
	0 (0%)
	Ice cream
	0 (0%)
	cake
	0 (0%)
	creme brûlée
	0 (0%)
	I'm on a diet
	1 (25%)
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Grammar: the imperative mood [View all] AlbertCat Aug 2014 OP

The whole uproar over Dawkins is insane. Tobin S. Aug 2014 #1

It is the authoritarian mindset. Promethean Aug 2014 #2

Excellent response. n/t defacto7 Aug 2014 #5

+1 (nt) mr blur Aug 2014 #9

but is prone to making social blunders. AlbertCat Aug 2014 #7

Damn it, I have that person on ignore for a reason. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #3

For the life of me, I don't understand the obsession with Dawkins. Curmudgeoness Aug 2014 #4

Because they need someone to throw? defacto7 Aug 2014 #6

He get's their goat AlbertCat Aug 2014 #8

The unhinged and the intellectually dishonest mr blur Aug 2014 #10