The basic form of such a rule is a conditional imperative: "If in circumstances C, do A!" This is the kind of 'ought' involved in what I call paradigmatic rule-obeying.
There are 9 verbal moods in Romanian: infinitive, indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, imperative, supine, participle, and gerund.
The indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, and imperative moods are "personal", in the sense that they can inflect (to express time, person) and act as a predicative verb in a sentence, while the other four moods, called non-personal (infinitive, supine, participle, and gerund), are used as adjectives or adverbs.
Even if Kelsen is quite wrong about this conditional nature of moral imperatives, he may be right about the law.
According to Daniel Levin Becker, Oulipians consider "literature in the conditional mood; not the imperative".
Furthermore, we propose that the overshooting factor of customers might be a conditional but not an imperative factor influencing disruptive susceptibility.
The modern language has seven noun cases, two numbers, three persons in the verb, three tenses (present, past, and future), two voices, and three moods (indicative, imperative, and conditional or subjunctive), and it marks verbs for perfective (completed action) and imperfective (action in process or uncompleted action) aspects.
Czech verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional.
Rummy's memoir, "Known and Unknown," is an unnerving reminder of how the Iraq hawks took crazy conditionals and turned them into urgent imperatives to justify what the defense chief termed "anticipatory self-defense".
Of course, other imperatives have a similar non-conditional form.
