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Meanings of imperative sentence in English

Russian
директива
Spanish
comando
Catalan
instrucció

Message conveying a requirement to perform a certain action.

директива
Russian
императив
Portuguese
modo imperativo do verbo
Spanish
imperativo
Catalan
imperatiu

Grammatical mood that expresses a command or request.

Related terms
императив
Usage of imperative sentence in English
1
The subject is usually omitted in the imperative sentence; but, when it is expressed, the sentence is in the transposed order.
Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composi...
2
We call the first a +Declarative sentence+, the second an +Interrogative sentence+, the third an + Imperative sentence+, and the fourth an +Exclamatory sentence+.
Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...
3
(2) The Imperative Sentence;
Deductive Logic
4
+Period+.-Placea period after (1) a declarative or an imperative sentence, (2) an abbreviation, and (3) a number written in the Roman notation.
Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...