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Question
Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.
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Solution
- Be alert.
- Halt!
- Give your identity.
- Make way for the king.
- You may stand there with those people who are in a queue.
- Bow to the Royal Monarch.
- Let the court begin!
- Fetch the merchant at once.
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