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Obligatory
"Obligatory" in a Sentence (13 examples)
If school wasn't obligatory, I would stop going there.
Presence of all members is obligatory.
One may add matres lectionis when the word could be ambiguous, but surely it is not obligatory.
Is it obligatory to rent a car?
Have you been here before? Do you want to hear my pathetic obligatory marketing spiel?
In France, voting isn't obligatory.
Is it obligatory?
They are not obligatory to use.
I don't really believe in languages with obligatory tense. I prefer a comprehensive set of tenses, aspects, moods, and evidentials in a language, and they're all optional for use.
Tagalog, Japanese, and Chinese have no grammatical verbal tenses, but rely on grammatical aspects. Western languages have obligatory grammatical verbal tenses. In many textbooks on Japanese, writers describe verbal tenses, but academics deny such. Maybe, writers think that distinguishing aspect from tense is higher-level linguistics.
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an obligatory promise
[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.
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