Indicative and Prohibitive Mood
The prohibitive mood (abbreviated PROH) negates the imperative mood. The two moods often seem different in word order or in morphology.
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Famous quotes containing the words indicative and/or mood:
“Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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