Words that qualify statements

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Hi...last week I explained about Hortatory Exposition to my students, and when we discussed about the language features of it, my reference book writes that it uses words that qualify statements but the book doesn't give any explanation or examples of the words and how to use it in the sentence. Could anyone explain to me about it, please...

Terryxpress · Accepted Answer

Let's look at what the hortatory subjunctive is, shall we?
(A hortative statement in itself!)
This is a statement urging others to join in some action with you.

Examples of Hortatory Speeches:

"I want you to get mad! (like I am mad) I don't want you to protest.(I am mad/angry but I am not protesting.) I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
"All I know is that first, you've got to get mad (like me). You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, goddammit! (Just like I feel) My life has value!'

"So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm as mad as ****, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"
(Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network, 1976)

Sometimes, a sentence (after any introductory word/s) may start, "Let us..." but this might be omitted:

"Please (let us) forget that we are anarchists. (Let us) Forget that it is claimed that we propagated violence. Forget that something appeared in Mother Earth when I was thousands of miles away, three years ago. Forget all that, and merely consider the evidence. Have we been engaged in a conspiracy? Has that conspiracy been proven? Have we committed overt acts? Have those overt acts been proven? We for the defence say they have not been proven. And therefore your verdict must be not guilty."
(http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/EmmaGoldman.htm, address to the jury on July 9, 1917)

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