Sentence examples for statement command from inspiring English sources

The soldiers were working near a weapons cache when the blast occurred, the command statement said.

The NATO command statement said that its forces at Lashkar Gah had reacted to the sighting of Taliban fighters assembling outside the city by conducting an airstrike "in which multiple enemy forces were killed," and that the strike was combined with a ground assault involving NATO and Afghan forces.

The combination of the different terms of these two systems results in four primary speech functions: offer, command, statement, and question, as shown in Table 1, which are, furthermore, "matched by a set of desired responses: accepting an offer, carrying out a command, acknowledging a statement and answering a question" ((Halliday & Matthiessen 2014): 135).

In the false belief command trials, the command statement referred to the fruit that is named on the critical secretive box but which is actually inside the other secretive box (e.g., "Please choose which box contains the banana". Figure  1. top-right).

According to a central command statement, "commanders on the ground reported that coalition forces received significant enemy fire from the hotel and consistent with the inherent right of self-defence, coalition forces returned fire".

Falling intonation is used in completed statements, direct commands, and sometimes in general questions unanswerable by yes or no; e.g., I have nothing to add.

The statements all commanded Iraqis to continue fighting the American military until it had left the country completely; nearly 130,000 troops remain.

There has also been strong bipartisan agreement (including President Obama's previous statements) that command-and-control regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency is the worst form of greenhouse gas regulation.

The high use of these two mood structures corresponds with the high percentage of statements and commands as illustrated in Table 2.

Initiating utterances are classified according to whether they are Statements, Questions, Commands or Offers, along with their expected or discretionary responses (Halliday & Mathiessen 2004, pp. 108 110).

In relation to Tenor, PSTs were also introduced to Speech Function (Derewianka 2011, pp. 110 114), enabling them to identify Statements, Questions, Commands and Offers, and to examine the form in which these functions were expressed.