Go home now!
- home
- go
- you
While 'you' isn't in the sentence, it was picked as the subject. Is 'you' the correct answer?
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6This is what's sometimes known as an "implied you".– Hot LicksCommented Mar 22, 2021 at 21:46
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1See english.stackexchange.com/a/124251/216106– DavoCommented Mar 22, 2021 at 22:00
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In English, imperative sentences don't have an explicit subject. In fact, you can recognise an imperative by the base form of a verb used without a subject.
The implied subject is always the person being spoken to, and so is "you".
Even in sentences like "Peter, go home now!" the word "Peter" is an interjection or vocative. Its purpose is to attract someone's attention, rather than take part in the syntax. The subject is still implied as "you", but we can infer that the name of "you" is Peter.
In the sentence 'Go Home now!', the subject 'you' is hidden.
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