Please check the sentences for grammar mistakes if any

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Creativeguru  #489800  Mon, 17 Mar 08 09:59 AM
Does this matter to take final decision

Do these things matter to take final decision?

Does your noble cause end here

Let their heart sparkles with pride

Let your heart speak to them

  
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Mister Micawber  #489823  Mon, 17 Mar 08 11:06 AM
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Does this matter in making a final decision?

Do these things matter in making a final decision?

Does your noble cause end here?

Let their hearts sparkle with pride.

Let your heart speak to them.
  
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Avangi  #489824  Mon, 17 Mar 08 11:10 AM

I guess poetic license covers everything but number agreement.

I think your last two lines are subjunctive, and we would say, "Let their heart(s) sparkle with pride / Let your heart(s) speak to them  (Declarative is, of course, "Their heart sparkles / Their hearts sparkle".)

Edit.  Please allow me to suspend judgement on that last statement.  I just realized the lines are imperative, and I'm not sure what you call "sparkle," but it surely doesn't need to agree with "heart."

  
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Creativeguru  #489844  Mon, 17 Mar 08 11:41 AM

Thanks a lot for your replies. can you please put some light on subjuntive sentence for understanding of topic in depth or give me references of websites if any

  
Avangi  #489851  Mon, 17 Mar 08 11:54 AM

Sorry, Cg,  Mr. M. just saved my bacon.  The lines are imperative and the "sparkle" and "speak" are infinitives.  Have you tried the Search function  -  upper right-hand corner?  Google subjunctive works pretty well.

Best wishes,  - A.

  
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