Monday 6 February 2012

Identify examples of imperative sentences in paragraph 13 of Emerson's "Education."

An imperative sentence
can do a number of things, but they all amount to one goal: an imperative sentence tells someone
what to do. Most often, they amount to a command or a piece of instruction. Thus, there is not
actually an imperative sentence in the thirteenth paragraph of this essay. That particular
paragraph reads,

Whilst thus the world exists for the
mind; whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by
the shows of the world, which interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousnessit becomes
the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.


The first independent clause, which precedes the semicolon,
describes the world. The second independent clause, which...

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