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Formal tone: It has a formal sentence structure and uses thee and thy instead of you.</span>
Answer:
Could you ask the audience to please sit for a few minutes?
Explanation:
Imperative statements could be expressed in other to make diverse nature of statements in English language. The imperative statement might be used to issue a command such as :
Sit down!
Don't speak!
When dishing out instructions or issuing commands, imperative statements are usually in play. Imperative statements could also be used to make a request such as it is used in the question above ;
Could you ask the audience to please sit for a few Minutes?
<span>I was fast asleep suddenly I heard a knock at the door then i woke up.
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The gerund phrase in this sentence is <span>camping near a lake. The gerund itself is camping, but as a phrase, it has additional modifiers (near a lake) that describe it. Gerunds and gerund phrases function as nouns in a sentence. So, in this case, its noun use is predicate nominative (predicate noun), that is a noun that completes the predicate by telling us what the subject is.</span>
