Sentence examples for imperative commands from inspiring English sources
A categorical imperative commands unconditionally that I should act in some way.
A categorical imperative "commands a certain line of conduct directly, without assuming or being conditional on any further goal to be reached by that conduct" (4:416).
The control of equipment modules is carried out following the imperative control commands sequences.
The control of equipment modules is carried out at the lower layer following the imperative control commands.
But Criado‑Perez is a campaigner, and the book – from the imperative command of its title to its earnest, inspirational rhetoric – has the tone of a manifesto.
There are all kinds of social imperatives commanding us not to — just as there are all kinds of social imperatives restricting the biological imperative to reproduce.
On this view, it is a convention that declarative sentences are used for assertion, interrogative for questions and imperative for commands and requests.
Kant's view that morality should be determined by the categorical imperative – duty to the moral law, rather than acting for a specific end – has been viewed as incompatible with divine command theory.
In addition to sense and reference, Frege also recognized what he called the "force" of an utterance the quality by virtue of which it counts as an assertion (You wrote the letter), a question (Did you write the letter?), an imperative or command (Write the letter!), or a request (Please write the letter).
In contrast, in the Template condition a large percentage of the students swapped style and used the imperative or command style of language.
For example, "A solution of CCl4 and Br2 was poured into a dropping funnel" and "The reaction was left to cool and after another hour the TLC was taken" are sentences recorded using the past tense style, whilst "Use bunsen burner to dry flask completely" and "Add reagents, stir and bubble nitrogen through system" are sentences recorded using an imperative or command style.
