What is the Subject here

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Anonymous

#512142 Sat, 10 May 08 05:34 PM

We've come across a sentence: Let us keep this room clean.

What is the subject of this? Please support with gramma rules. Thanks...

Anonymous

Cool Breeze

#512154 Sat, 10 May 08 06:07 PM

There is no finite verb and there is no subject. Let us keep is an imperative.

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Anonymous

#513195 Tue, 13 May 08 05:15 PM

CB,

Thanks for the response. Can you expound more on this case?

Thanks! Please, just if you have extra time and energy.thanks again... GBU!

Gorgeous:)

Anonymous

shaved

#513718 Wed, 14 May 08 09:12 PM

it is a command (imperative)

(you) is the subject

shaved

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Zerox

#513720 Wed, 14 May 08 09:21 PM

Hey CB, I vaguely remember reading from Greenbaum's grammar book that if the verb is in the base form and in the imperative, it is a finite verb. Is my memory just playing tricks with me?

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