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Ayu Utami, whose 1998 novel Saman is noted as starting the sastra wangi movement. Sastra wangi (also spelled sastrawangi; literally, "fragrant literature") is a label given to a new body of Indonesian literature written by young, urban Indonesian women who take on controversial issues such as politics, religion and sexuality.
An imperative sentence gives anything from a command or order, to a request, direction, instruction, suggestion, or implication. Imperative sentences are more intentional than exclamatory sentences and do require an audience, [ note 1 ] as their aim is to get the person(s) being addressed either to do or to not do something.
Imperative mood is often expressed using special conjugated verb forms. Like other finite verb forms, imperatives often inflect for person and number.Second-person imperatives (used for ordering or requesting performance directly from the person being addressed) are most common, but some languages also have imperative forms for the first and third persons (alternatively called cohortative and ...
An imperative, in contrast, generally applies to the listener. When a language is said to have a jussive, the jussive forms are different from the imperative ones, but may be the same as the forms called "subjunctive" in that language. Latin and Hindi are examples of where the jussive is simply about certain specific uses of the subjunctive.
Saman is an Indonesian novel by Ayu Utami published in 1998. It is Utami's first novel, and depicts the lives of four sexually-liberated female friends, and a former Catholic priest, Saman, for whom the book is named.
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Two of his works, the novel Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang (1927) [4] and the study Atsal Moelanja Timboel Pergerakan Tionghoa di Indonesia (1936/37), [1] have been translated into English. Kwee began his writing career in 1919 with the stage play Allah jang Palsoe . [ 5 ]
The following is an example of a pure imperative inference: P1. Do both of the following: wash the dishes and clean your room! C1. Therefore, clean your room! In this case, all the sentences making up the argument are imperatives. Not all imperative inferences are of this kind. Consider again: P1. Take all the books off the table! P2.