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  2. Command verb - Wikipedia

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    In human–computer interaction, a command verb is a verb that appears in a user interface and is used for the user to tell the computer to do something (rather than vice versa). [1] For instance, the words "edit" and "view" and "help" that appear in the Web browser menu are all clearly verbs. Other items such as "file" or "favorites" or "tools ...

  3. Latin tenses in commands (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    From a semantic perspective, a tense is a temporal circumstance in which an event takes place relative to a given point in time. [i] [ii] [iii] It is absolute (primary) if it relates the represented event to the time of the speech event [iv] [v] [vi] [vii] and it is relative if it relates the represented event to the time of another event in the context of discourse.

  4. BBC Bitesize - Wikipedia

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    BBC Bitesize, [1] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams .

  5. Latin indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    The first four the verbs in the last example above are perfect subjunctive, which in an indirect question may represent an imperfect, perfect, or pluperfect tense in the original speech. The last verb ignōrāre is an infinitive, since it is a rhetorical question resembling a statement ('there is none of us who doesn't know') more than a question.

  6. Volitive modality - Wikipedia

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    The verb form is formally called volitive, [3] [4] but in practice, it can be seen as a broader deontic form, rather than a pure volitive form, since it is also used to express orders and commands besides wishes and desires. Examples: Venu. ― "Come." (a request or command) Donu ĝin al mi. ― "Give it to me." (a request or command) Ni faru tion.

  7. Jussive mood - Wikipedia

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    li-yaf‘al-hu to-do. JUS. 3SG. MASC -it li-yaf‘al-hu to-do.JUS.3SG.MASC-it 'Have him do it.' A further use of this mood is in negative commands. لا تأخذ ذلك اللحم lā not ta’xudh take. JUS. 2SG. MASC dhālika that l-laḥm the-meat lā ta’xudh dhālika l-laḥm not take.JUS.2SG.MASC that the-meat 'Don't take that meat.' The jussive form is also used in past tense sentences ...

  8. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  9. BBC Online - Wikipedia

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    BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It.