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I'm confused with imperative sentence.

Is " You must go to school right now." a imperative sentence? Thanks.

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No, that's a statement -- a declarative sentence. An imperative sentence with the same ideas would be this:

Go to school right now.

http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n21.htm
No, that is not an imperative sentence. Imperative sentences have an understood subject (you) that is not voiced or written in the sentence. To make it imperative, you'd say:

Go to school right now.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/340685/four_kinds_of_sentences_declarative.html?cat=4
So is "Please leave the room soon." an imperative sentence?
Thank you.
No, that is a request. Leave the room now. That would be the imperative for. Imperative means an order not a request.
But in the website that Ms. Sue gives me. It says "Imperative sentences in the English language are the sentences that make a command or request"...
We do seem to have a difference of opinion here. However, here are two more sites that include requests using "please" as imperative sentences.

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/sntpurps.html

http://academicwriting.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_identify_the_four_types_of_sentences