Difference between revisions of "Imperative"

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An imperative is a sentence type expressing an order or a request:

(i)  Tell me about it.

Imperatives typically lack an overt subject in English, but a subject may appear in German and Dutch imperatives:

(ii) Vertel (jij) me eens hoe dat zit(?)
     'Tell (you) me now how it is'

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-Sentence type expressing an order, or request:
+An '''imperative''' is a sentence type expressing an order or a request:
   (i)  Tell me about it.
-'''Imperative'''s typically lack an overt subject in English, but a subject may appear in German and Dutch imperatives:
+===Comments===
+Imperatives typically lack an overt subject in English, but a subject may appear in German and Dutch imperatives:
   (ii) Vertel (jij) me eens hoe dat zit(?)
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 [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Imperative&lemmacode=652 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
+===Other languages===
+German [[Imperativ]]
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+[[Category:Semantics]]
+[[Category:Modality]]