Sentence examples for imperative form from inspiring English sources
The imperative form is a good choice.
The meaning of two of the questions is that they are commands, but only one uses the "imperative" form.
But I cannot shake another online definition that lists my birth name as the second-person imperative form of the Turkish verb erinmek, which means "to be too lazy to do something".
Ironically in Latin, hailing from an Ancient Roman culture of slavery, brutality and oppression, the negative form of the imperative adds in the words noli (singular) or nolite (plural) before the imperative form, yet these literally mean "do not want to" do something, which seems uncharacteristically polite for a command.
Compare, for instance, the normal verb stem and the imperative form of "to come": in Proto-Chadic these are *sə and *ya, respectively; in Amazigh Kabyle as and eyya; in Egyptian nn and mn; and in Semitic Amharic mεṭṭä and na.
Indeed, all the surahs except the fatiha, which is a short devotional prayer, and the last two surahs are in the form of an address from God, either speaking himself in the first person or speaking through the imperative form qul ("say!") and ordering that the words that follow be proclaimed.
Another common feature concerns the irregularity of imperative forms of the verbs "to come" and "to go".
Classical Mongolian has 5 finite verb forms (3 present tenses and 2 pasts, the meanings of which remain under study); 10 converbs and 6 verbal nouns, distinguished as to relative tense or grammatical aspect; and 7 or 8 "imperative" forms.
Even in areas in which finite forms are not used in the present, they occur in the imperative forms and what may be called the subjunctive; e.g., Hindi tum kam kər-o "work," mɛ̃ əndər aũ "May I come in?" The person number system of the New Indo-Aryan verb accords with the use of pronouns.
In fact, pragmatic instruction is imperative, as form and meaning are not always directly matched.
Locke does not have a great deal to say about how imperatives are formed.
