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expresses a relation between an agent and a location-plus-direction. More likely, it is a case of free enrichment. Congenitally literal-minded philosophers will be skeptical of "free enrich- ment," and want to deny that speakers of the foregoing sentences actually said that they had eaten lunch in particular, or that it is raining here in Chapel Hill, or that it would take a good deal of time to get to the building. Such philosophers would hear those "enrichments" as ordinary implicatures.9 But linguists are more likely to be right on this sort of issue. 168 Pragmatics and speech acts Indirect force As I mentioned in the previous chapter, the three principal English moods correspond to three broad illocutionary genera of which individual types of speech act are species: The normal use of a declarative is to make a statement, that of an interrogative is to seek information, and that of an imperative is to issue a directive of some kind