imperative sentence

Examples of imperative sentence in the following topics:

• Ending Punctuation

  • Periods are used at the end of declarative or imperative sentences.
  • Recall that declarative sentences make statements and imperative sentences give commands.
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  • (declarative sentence containing an imperative statement)
  • A sentence ending in an exclamation mark may be an exclamation, an imperative, or may indicate astonishment.

• Using Varied Sentence Lengths and Styles

  • Here is an example of imperative sentence: "Go to work. " An imperative sentence, or command, tells someone to do something (and if done strongly, may be considered both imperative and exclamatory).
  • Structural classifications for sentences include: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences.
  • An imperative sentence, or command, tells someone to do something (and may be considered both imperative and exclamatory).
  • Sentences in English can also be classified as either major sentences or minor sentences:
  • A major sentence is a regular sentence with a subject and a predicate.

• Structure of a Sentence

  • English sentences can also be classified based on their purpose: declarations, interrogatives, exclamations, and imperatives.
  • An imperative sentence tells someone to do something (and may be considered both imperative and exclamatory).
  • Imperatives can be effective in making an argument.
  • You can introduce evidence with an imperative (e.g., "Consider the current immigrant crisis in Europe").
  • You can use an imperative to transition from a counter-argument: "Don't be fooled by this faulty logic."

• Verb Mood: Indicative, Subjunctive, and Imperative

  • In English, there are many grammatical moods, but by far the most common are the indicative, the imperative, the subjunctive, and the conditional.
  • Instead, you change the sentence structure to express a certain mood.
  • The imperative mood expresses direct commands, prohibitions, and requests.
  • In the imperative mood, the subject is almost always implied to be "you."
  • Subjunctive sentences are often of the following form: [Indicative verb phrase setting up a hypothetical scenario such as "I wish," "I believe," "I hope"] + [Subjunctive phrase describing hypothetical scenario].

• Introduction to Commas

  • If the second independent clause is very short, or if it is an imperative, the comma can be omitted.
  • The first phrase could not stand on its own as a sentence, but when joined to the independent clause by the comma, the sentence is complete.
  • In these situations, say the sentence to yourself.
  • In this sentence, "new" and "weird" are nonrestrictive.
  • In other words, if you dropped a restrictive modifier from a sentence, the meaning of the sentence would change.

• Introduction to Verbs: Tense, Aspect, and Mood

  • Every sentence needs at least one verb, which is paired with the subject.
  • The three main moods used in English are indicative, subjunctive, imperative.
  • They may be the main verb in a sentence, even if they express a description rather than an action.
  • It is not only important to have subject and verb agreement, but also to utilize the correct verb tense to ensure that a sentence contains its intended meaning.

• Structure of a Sentence

• Using Metacommentary to Clarify and Elaborate

  • Here is a successful example of a meta-discussion: In writing Ulysses, James Joyce attempted to write a novel with a coherent narrative while breaking the narrative conventions, such as chronology and sentence structure, that readers assume are necessary to make a plot coherent.
  • What is Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative?
  • Here is a successful example of a meta-discussion: In writing Ulysses, James Joyce attempted to write a novel with a coherent narrative while breaking the narrative conventions, such as chronology and sentence structure, that readers assume are necessary to make a plot coherent.

• Components of a Sentence

  • An incomplete sentence is called a fragment.
  • Compare and contrast the sentences below:
  • In active-voice sentences, it is the noun or pronoun performing the action in the sentence.
  • in a sentence.
  • In a given sentence, there may be more than one of any of the five core sentence elements.

• Colons

  • Some punctuation marks, such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points, indicate the end of a sentence.
  • However, commas, semicolons, and colons all can appear within a sentence without ending it.
  • Essentially, sentences that are divided by colons are of the form, "Sentence about something: list or definition related to that sentence."
  • The elements that follow the colon may or may not be complete sentences.
  • Because the colon is preceded by a sentence, it is a complete sentence whether what follows the colon is another sentence or not.