On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 02:22 Steven D'Aprano <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Without a subject of the sentence, that's not present tense, it is the imperative mood."Fix buffalo.spam ..." is a command or suggestion.
While it could be read that way, I don't think that's the intention. I'm not sure it fits any of the usual grammatical categories. It might be best understood as an abbreviated infinitive, i.e. there's an implied "The purpose of this commit is to..." in front of it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LWB7RV67BIYZILBYDPNZC7INS2RFMMM4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
