An imperative sentence gives a command. It usually end with a period, but it may also end with an exclamation point (!).
Commands ask or tell people to do something.
"Please pass the salt." is a command, that does not sound as commanding as, "Get out of my way!" But, both of these sentences are imperatives because they are both asking or telling someone to do something.
An imperative sentence is a sentence that clearly states a command or order toward another peron or an animal. For example: "Shut the door", or "Feed the dog".
Finding the Subject
This may sound strange, but every single command has the same subject! Yikes! How is that even possible?
Well, since commands are always speaking to someone or something (you've got to address them if you're going to ask them to do something), the subject is always the word you.
You may have noticed, the word "you" is not even in a command. Because of this, the subject is actually called you understood, and it is written like this: (you)
This means that the subject is the word you, but since it is not written or spoken in the sentence, it is understood and is therefore in parentheses.
<Imperative Sentence> = <predicate> = <verb> <complement>
Examples:
- "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
(Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy) - "Think Small"
(slogan of Volkswagen) - "Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once."
(W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That. Methuen, 1930) - "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
(Mark Twain) - "Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back."
(Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game") - "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
(Alfred North Whitehead) - Westley: Give us the gate key.
Yellin: I have no gate key.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Yellin: Oh, you mean this gate key.
(The Princess Bride, 1987) - Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
(Theodor Geisel) - "Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!"
(John Candy as Buck Russell in Uncle Buck, 1989) - "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
(Darth Vader, Star Wars, 1977) - "We're going in the attic now, folks. Keep your accessories with you at all times."
(Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story 3, 2010) - "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
(Ernest Hemingway) - "Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again."
(Peter in film adaptation of Peter Pan, 2003) - "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it . . .."
In the following sentences, 'you' is addressed but the subject of the verb is in the first person [me, us] or in the third person [him, her, them, it]. In such sentences, 'let' is used in the very beginning of the sentences or the clauses with bare infinitive [infinitive without 'to'].
Study the following sentences: -
1. Let us find out the truth.
2. Let me study what has happened with you.
3. Let the children play in the garden. Don't disturb them.
4. Let her decide what she wants.
5. Let the strangers not come into the office.
6. Let the students play in their vacant period.
7. Let all the doors and windows be shut.
8. Let us wait. Let the case be decided. Let the law take its own course.
References
www.learnenglish.be/gr1_impe_ex1.htm
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