On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 02:22 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info <mailto:st...@pearwood.info>> 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 -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LWB7RV67BIYZILBYDPNZC7INS2RFMMM4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
