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Tanner92 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
imperative vs conditonal (col.) sentence
Hello all.
I´ve got the following problem.
Context:
Ilona: That´s our ticket inside. Bravo moving.
They stand up, pick up they bags, and leave the caefe. They receive a video message from Irons.
Irons: Team, I don´t need to remind you how important this meeting is. Hades is responsible for the nuclear attacks four years ago. We bring him down, we bring down the whole KVA network. There is no room for error. Get it done.
I was told by my teacher that "we bring him down, we bring down the... " is a conditional tense - in coll. speech it is possible to leave out "if or when". However it is incredibly difficult for me to recognize whether it is a conditional sentence or imperativ.
Please, would it be possible to give me some advice so that I would be able to recognize whether it is imp. or conditional? Even though I have the context here I still think it could be translated both ways.
P.S. At the end the "Get it done." is imperative without a doubt..I would say....
Thank you!
I´ve got the following problem.
Context:
Ilona: That´s our ticket inside. Bravo moving.
They stand up, pick up they bags, and leave the caefe. They receive a video message from Irons.
Irons: Team, I don´t need to remind you how important this meeting is. Hades is responsible for the nuclear attacks four years ago. We bring him down, we bring down the whole KVA network. There is no room for error. Get it done.
I was told by my teacher that "we bring him down, we bring down the... " is a conditional tense - in coll. speech it is possible to leave out "if or when". However it is incredibly difficult for me to recognize whether it is a conditional sentence or imperativ.
Please, would it be possible to give me some advice so that I would be able to recognize whether it is imp. or conditional? Even though I have the context here I still think it could be translated both ways.
P.S. At the end the "Get it done." is imperative without a doubt..I would say....
Thank you!
Top answer
It is a statement of an intensely desired future state using simple present. It is not conditional - there is no condition + consequence. It is not imperative, because the explicit subject "we" is declared.
- It is a statement of an intensely desired future state using simple present.
- It is not conditional - there is no condition + consequence.
- It is not imperative, because the explicit subject "we" is declared.
- We (will) bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.
- S.
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It is a statement of an intensely desired future state using simple present. It is not conditional - there is no condition + consequence. It is not imperative, because the explicit subject "we" is declared.
. We (will) bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.
. We (will) bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.
Tanner92P.S. At the end the "Get it done." is imp
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If there is the explicit subject "we" or "I" it etc. it can not be imperative?
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I don´t disagree with your answer to my question but it can be considered to be a conditional, can´t be? (If ) we bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.
If there is the explicit subject "we" or "I" it etc. it can not be imperative?
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I don´t disagree with your answer to my question but it can be considered to be a conditional, can´t be? (If ) we bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.
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Tanner92If there is the explicit subject "we" or "I" it etc. it can not be imperative?The underling message can be imperative, but we cannot form an imperative-mood sntence with an explicit first-person subject.
Tanner92I don´t disagree with your answer to my question but it can be considered to be a conditional, can´t be? (If ) we br
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Tanner92I don´t disagree with your answer to my question but it can be considered to be a conditional, can´t be? (If ) we bring him down, we (will) bring down the whole KVA network.Yes, it can.
I read the comma as an ungrammatical comma splice, not as a connector between the two sentences.
If you mean a conditional, it's much clearer to include the "
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Thank you AS and fivejedjon
fivejedjonThere is indeed an implied 'if'. This is one of the many 'conditional'
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Read this about the imperative mood:
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/moodimperative.html
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/moodimperative.html
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If possible please delete my last "thank you" post. I have one more question.
I was watching Terminator: Genysis and someone said: We split up. It's not imperativ?
I was watching Terminator: Genysis and someone said: We split up. It's not imperativ?
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No.
We split up. is a declarative statement. In other words,, you are stating a fact.
Split up. is an imperative. In other words, you are giving an order to someone else.
Clive
We split up. is a declarative statement. In other words,, you are stating a fact.
Split up. is an imperative. In other words, you are giving an order to someone else.
Clive
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Tanner92 I can not say: You do it! We split up and similar sentences which I have always considered to be imperatives.You do it is fine. We do it is not OK as an imperative.
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