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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.

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          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...