- published: 06 May 2016
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The imperative mood (abbreviated IMP) expresses commands or requests as a grammatical mood. These commands or requests urge the audience to act a certain way. It also may signal a prohibition, permission, or any other kind of exhortation.
Formulation of the English imperative simply uses the bare infinitive form of the verb. The infinitive form usually corresponds to the second-person present indicative form, with the exception of the verb be. The subject of these sentences is usually understood as you (the second person) except in the case of "Let's" which implies first person and at least a second person. Other languages such as Latin, French and German have several inflected imperative forms, which can vary according to grammatical categories such as:
For instance, Latin regular forms can exist:
Some consider this richness of forms useful for a better understanding, particularly because no subject pronoun normally specifies with the imperative.
The use of the imperative mood be seen as impolite, inappropriate or even offensive in certain circumstances. Commonly, polite speech will instead express the same thing as a question or statement, such as:
My baby, he don't talk to sweet,
He ain't got much to say.
But he loves me, loves me, loves me,
I know that he loves me anyway.
And maybe he don't dress fine,
But I don't really mind.
'Cause every time he pulls me near,
I just wanna cheer:
Let's hear it for the bo-oy!
Let's give the boy a ha-a-a-a-nd.
Let's hear it for my ba-bay.
You know you gotta understa-a-a-and.
Oh maybe he's no Romeo,
But he's my lovin' one man show
OH oh oh oh
Let's hear it for the bo-oy!
My baby may not be rich,
He's watching every di-i-i-ime.
But he loves me, loves me, loves me
We always have a real good time.
And maybe he sings off-key
But that's alright by me-e-e-e-e
Yeah. Yeah.
But what he does, he does so well,
Maked me wanna yell:
Let's hear it for the bo-oy!
Aw, Let's give the boy a ha-a-a-a-and!
Let's hear it for my ba-bay,
You know you gotta understa-a-a-a-a-and.
Oh, maybe he's no Romeo,
But he's my lovin' one man show
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Let's hear it for the bo-oy!
And every time he pulls me near,
I just wanna cheer:
Let's hear it for the bo-oy!
Aw, let's give the boy a ha-a-a-a-and.
Let's hear it for my ba-bay,
You know you gotta understa-a-a-a-a-a-a-and!!
Oh maybe he's no Romeo,
But he's my lovin' one man show
Oh, oh, oh-oh
Let's hear it for the bo-oy.
(Let's hear it for the boy!)
Let's hear it for my ma-yan!
(Let's hear it for my ba-bay!)
Let's hear it for my ba-baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....y
(Let's hear it for the boy!)
(Let's hear it for my ba-bay!)
(Let's hear it for the bo-oy!)
Let's hear it for my ma-a-yan!!
(Let's hear it for the bo-oy!)
Putcha hands togetha!
(Let's hear it for my ba-bay!)
(Let's hear it for the bo-oy!)
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
(Let's hear it for the boy!)
(Let's hear it for my ba-bay!)