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Joey_five Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Let's ... imperative or general statement?

0Are senteneces like 01b00Let's go to see a movie together 02b00considered imperative? It is without a subject. But it is a bit different from another imperative sentences.02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 00Yes, it's an imperative, for the first person plural as I'm sure you know. 02br 02br 00There's also 'Don't let's. ' and 'Let's not.

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 00Yes, it's an imperative, for the first person plural as I'm sure you know.
  • 02br 02br 00There's also 'Don't let's.
  • ' and 'Let's not.
  • '02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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00Yes, it's an imperative, for the first person plural as I'm sure you know. I guess in the model from earlier times we might have said 01i00'Go we02i00 to the movies' instead of 'Let's go to the movies'.02br
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00There's also 'Don't let's. . .' and 'Let's not. . .'02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0
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01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
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10Yes, it's an imperative, for the first person plural as I'm sure you know. I guess in the model from earlier times we might have said 11i10'Go we12i10 to the movies' instead of 'Let's go to the movies'.12br
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10There's also 'Don't let's.
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01font00How about signs like "No smoking" . . . Can we consider these kinds of expressions imperative or we have special terms for them??02font02br
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00I wouldn't call 'No smoking' an imperative, in the grammatical sense, but in the non-grammatical sense it does seem imperative. In other words, it is te
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0I guess signs as "01b00no02b00 smoking" can be seen as interdictions, can't they?0-
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00Sounds good, a kind of negative imperative, unlike 'Expressway ahead' or 'Staff only'.02br
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00If something has to be urgently brought to our attention, eg 'One way street', perhaps we could classify that as an ***********? 02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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