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Imperative mood
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<p> The imperative mood is a <a href="/facts/Grammatical_mood/QS8qwCPm">grammatical mood</a> that forms a command or request. </p><p>The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person. They are sometimes called <i>directives</i>, as they include a feature that encodes directive force, and another feature that encodes modality of unrealized interpretation. </p><p>An example of a <a href="/facts/Verb/zp42buvn">verb</a> used in the imperative mood is the <a href="/facts/English_grammar/zBGLlTYH">English</a> phrase "Go." Such imperatives imply a <a href="/facts/Grammatical_person/PfUA43oU">second-person</a> subject (<i>you</i>), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called <a href="/facts/Cohortative/dgDJYpHT">cohortative</a> and <a href="/facts/Jussive/0wfF86Iy">jussive</a>). </p><p>Imperative mood can be denoted by the <a href="/facts/List_of_glossing_abbreviations/6IN8Pt68">glossing abbreviation</a> IMP. It is one of the <a href="/facts/Irrealis_mood/b9kztzFa">irrealis moods</a>. </p>