| This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative mood. |
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| The second sentence transforms the first from an indicative statement of fact into something more like an optative expression of desire. |
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| In the models to follow, an exclamative rather than an imperative or optative is used to model the emotive features of ethical language. |
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| He says that the translator cannot decide clearly between the subjunctive, the indicative, and the optative. |
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| Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogatory, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential. |
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| Some also preserve an optative mood that describes events that are wished for or hoped for but not factual. |
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| Common irrealis moods are the imperative, the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, the jussive, and the potential. |
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| The optative mood expresses hopes, wishes or commands and has other uses that may overlap with the subjunctive mood. |
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| The full set of speaker-oriented modality consists of imperative, prohibitive, optative, hortative, admonitive, and permissive. |
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| These verbs derive from the subjunctive or optative use of preterite forms to refer to present or future time. |
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| Their textbook is divided into thirty extensive and ambitious chapters which cover everything from the alphabet to the optative mood. |
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| But the discussion of optative sociology is barely two pages long, which means that nearly the entire book is a list of supposed mistakes. |
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| First, each lessens the blunt force and authoritativeness of the second-person imperative by using a more interpersonally agreeable first-person plural imperative, exclamative, and optative respectively. |
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| For the subjunctive, optative and participle moods there are only a few examples, and it is not quite clear whether they should be interpreted periphrastically. |
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| The occurrential modal may in addition show in optative expressions like. |
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| For example, the very frequently used aorist, though a functional preterite in the indicative mood, conveys historic or 'immediate' aspect in the subjunctive and optative. |
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| For example, the subjunctive and optative moods in Ancient Greek alternate syntactically in many subordinate clauses, depending on the tense of the main verb. |
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