THE MOST COMMON WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE MEANINGS OF THE IMPERATIVE MOOD IN MODERN SPOKEN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article considers various ways of expressing the idea of the Imperative Mood in modern spoken English. In the discourse under study, speakers most frequently resort to the following meanings of the Imperative Mood: order, recommendation, suggestion, request, prohibition. Most of them can be explicitly or implicitly expressed. One and the same way of expression can convey different meanings. The type of meaning depends on the extra linguistic context. The idea of the above-mentioned mood may be conveyed by the following means: the forms of the Imperative Mood themselves, the forms of the Indicative Mood in declarative and interrogative utterances, some modal and semi-modal verbs in declarative and interrogative utterances, nominal utterances, interjections.

Keywords

• повелительное наклонение
• разговорный дискурс
• значения повелительного наклонения
• способы передачи значений повелительного наклонения
• imperative mood
• spoken english discourse
• meanings of the imperative mood
• ways of conveying the meanings of the imperative mood