Here is the term “imperative” correct here.
I am writing a piece of software related to meetings.
What buttons are supposed to use to invite people to a meeting? Is the word “invite” in this context the imperative form of the verb?
If I now look at a list of my own meetings to which I’ve been invited, my status is “invited” with respect to the meetings that I attended. What are the forms of the verb of status?
I can now “accept” or “decline” using similar buttons. Are these also imperatives?
Can people view a meeting request? In each case there will be a status for each participant, of “invited” or “accepted” or “declined”. I take it they have the same form as invisited. above and are the same for no matter who is looking.
A bell that says PUSH, a bell that says INVITE is an imperative verb form, just as other verbs say to.
So it seems if someone presses the invitation button right after the question is submitted, then they are invited the target invitee. I never met anything like that, but I can ask someone for it…. In this case, the past participle is an adjective form describing the status of the solicited person (no matter who is looking at it). What defines mutually exclusive acceptance and decline?
Why do you have to distinguish between commands and statuses? Does it help?
I disagree with the previous answer in that I think the ‘invite’, ‘accept’ and ‘decline’ forms are here most naturally understood as an integral. I disagreed. If you were writing this application in French you would, I believe, use ‘inviter’ (infinitive) rather than ‘invite’ (imperative singular).
In the context you specify, invite is indeed an imperative form, a command from the operator to the software program and likewise accept and decline. Invited is a past participle, functioning either as an adjective, as in “Linda is invited”, or as part of the present perfect passive construction, “Linda has been invited” If the host invites them, it’s the potential guest who either accepts or declines them (by clicking either of those two buttons), so the forms accepted and declined (for the status of the potential guest) are not entirely parallel to invited. The expanded form there might be either “Linda accepted” or “Linda has accepted”. ” In the former case, accepted is a finite verb in simple past tense; in the latter, it is a past participle in a present perfect construction.
