Sentence examples for in the imperative from inspiring English sources

Let's write just in the imperative, or try the second person.

"Coaches and fans yell their advice in the imperative mood without the subject (you) and without the object".

And that "enjoy", according to common English usage, is now very much an intransitive verb when used in the imperative.

Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.

Don't be fooled by the fact that they are written in the imperative tense (pick the basil leaves, peel the onion).

One would be more likely to blink at these follies if we were not so surrounded by nonstop fatuities in the imperative voice of advertising.

The drummer Scott Amendola could fairly be described as a jazz musician with an investment in the imperatives of groove.

In these two pictures, the protagonists are imprisoned in the imperatives of character, exercising, they imagine, free will from moment to moment but governed at the same time by the sullen imprint of past crimes, injuries, mistakes.

As Benjamin scholar Max Pensky puts it: "The promise of eternal newness and unlimited progress encoded in the imperatives of technological change and the cycles of consumption now appear as their opposite, as primal history, the mythic compulsion toward endless repetition".

Knowledge-wh figures explicitly in the imperative-epistemic theory of wh-questions developed by Åqvist (1965).

Further, commands inherent in the imperatives were often tempered by the politeness marker please and/or kindly: (21) Please send it to me via email of hard copies.