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Imperative followed by “rather than”?
Have in mind what you want to take a picture of beforehand - shoot a
single shot rather than taking many random pictures.
I came across this sentence and I'm confused about the verb following ...
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How do I compose an imperative sentence that tells a parent to “Ask” a child?
We are putting together a kit of picture books and a narrative on how parents can use the books to help a child with early literacy. We want to use an imperative sentence to tell the parent to ask the ...
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Imperative vs. Declarative (can a third grader or his parents tell the difference?)
My 3rd grade son was supposed to write a series of sentences, and write whether they were "imperative" or "declarative" (or "interogative" or "exclamatory", but those aren't relevant for this ...
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Colon usage after an imperative sentence in survey instructions
Consider a survey question that asks a question and then gives instruction about how to respond. For example,
Is this a sample survey question? Check all that apply:
__ yes
__ no
Is it ...
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Is this an imperative sentence?
Is this sentence an imperative sentence, or does it have conditional meaning?
You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid, and it’ll rub off on you.
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What kind of form is “don’t anyone”?
Does English have third-person imperatives, or only second-person ones? Consider:
Jeff, turn the heat in here way down, please, but don’t anyone turn his suit heater on. We need to get used to that ...
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Should I always insert “and” between two verbs in imperative mode?
As far as I understand, the word and is usually inserted between two verbs used in imperative mood in English. For example, “Go and make me a drink.”
How obligatory is this? Can I claim that it is ...
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Correctness of “Let go!”
I yelled Let go! to my son while he was pulling his sister's arm. My husband says it's incorrect. I have no idea. Is it correct?
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Imperative vs. cohortative in a scientific paper
Which of the following is more correct to use in a scientific paper?
Consider the set A..., Recall that the set A..., Put the set A...
or
Let us consider the set A..., Let us recall that ...
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What, in this context, is wrong with using the progressive tense?
In just a couple of years, low-carbohydrate diets have accomplished
what the government has failed to do in decades of trying: convince
the public that refined grains are bad and whole grains ...
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Word order in imperative sentence
What are the correct possibilities for word order in the following sentence?
Is there any general rule for imperative sentences? (Like SVOMPT?)
Please, check regularly the updated information about ...
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Difference between “Please don't be long” and “Please don't YOU be long”
In the song "Blue Jay Way" from the Beatles, we've got the following lyrics :
Please don't be long
Please don't you be very long
I'm (obviously) not a native English speaker but the first ...
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Third person imperative recommendations/suggestions/requests
My question is on the grammatical correctness of the following sentence with regard to the form of the verb 'join':
The plan is that the group join the party.
Other sentences that I think ...
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Is “put” imperative in this sentence?
In a writing exercise I sent to my English teacher, she wrote some comments evaluating my writing. Some comments were about what I did, and others were about what I should do. In the sentences about ...
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Does 'should' imply an unquestionable command?
My question is prompted by a question on the programmers.stackexchange:
This may be a duplicate of another question here on english.stackechange, but the answers given to that question did not ...
