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421. Representatives of the imperative in oratio obliqua.

In continuous oratio obliqua, the imperative may be represented by the infinitive, but ordinarily the imperative notion is more explicitly conveyed through the medium of some periphrastic expression. See Object Sentences. For rare examples of the retention of the imperative, see 422.

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