Imperative Sentence
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Imperative Sentence
• An impretive sentence issues a request, gives a command or expresses a desire or wish. • They differ from sentences that make statement (declarative sentences), express strong feelling (exclamatory sentences), or ask a question (interrogative sentence)
• Typically, imperative sentences are short and smple, but they can be long, compound or comlex sentences as well. • Some of the simplest sentences in the english languange are actually imperative sentences consisting a single verb. • Example : Stop! Go. Hurry!
Example of imperative sentences
• • • • • • Get me some water. Leave the cat alone. Go to the store for me Bring me some ice. Leave the package at the door. Come over here, look at this specimen, and tell me what you think.
Subject of imperative sentences
• Though the subject usually isn’t obvius in imperative sentences, it’s there. The subject is always in the second person and is always the word “you”. In the sentence example s used earlier the subject isn’t written but is implied.
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(You) Get me some water. (You) Leave the cat alone. (You) Go to the store for me (You) Bring me some ice. (You) Leave the package at the door. (You) Come over here, look at this specimen, and tell me what you think.
• An impretive sentence issues a request, gives a command or expresses a desire or wish. • They differ from sentences that make statement (declarative sentences), express strong feelling (exclamatory sentences), or ask a question (interrogative sentence)
• Typically, imperative sentences are short and smple, but they can be long, compound or comlex sentences as well. • Some of the simplest sentences in the english languange are actually imperative sentences consisting a single verb. • Example : Stop! Go. Hurry!
Example of imperative sentences
• • • • • • Get me some water. Leave the cat alone. Go to the store for me Bring me some ice. Leave the package at the door. Come over here, look at this specimen, and tell me what you think.
Subject of imperative sentences
• Though the subject usually isn’t obvius in imperative sentences, it’s there. The subject is always in the second person and is always the word “you”. In the sentence example s used earlier the subject isn’t written but is implied.
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(You) Get me some water. (You) Leave the cat alone. (You) Go to the store for me (You) Bring me some ice. (You) Leave the package at the door. (You) Come over here, look at this specimen, and tell me what you think.
