Please don't let me come home to find the car not fixed cause you are watching a movi

[Shareonstonell]

Can someone please tell me if the following is a question or statement. Please don't let me come home to find the car not fixed cause you are watching a movie

 

[5jj]

Please don't let me come home ...

Neither. It's a request.

 

[emsr2d2]

Can someone please tell me if the following is a question or statement?

Please don't let me come home to find the car not fixed because you [STRIKE]are[/STRIKE] were watching a movie.

Welcome to the forum. :hi:

The sentence you're asking us about is a statement; more specifically, it's a request. However, your opening words were a question so they needed a question mark.
Did you write the sentence about the car yourself or did you find it somewhere else?

Note that I have changed your thread title. Titles should be unique and relevant to the thread, and include some/all of the words/phrases you are asking us about. Titles such as "Help" are of no use on the forum.

 

[tzfujimino]

Well, it doesn't look like a question to me.

 

[probus]

Well, it doesn't look like a question to me.

It's more like a veiled threat if you ask me.

 

[jutfrank]

It isn't a statement at all, as 5jj said. It's an imperative sentence with the illocution of a request.

In linguistics, a statement is something that can be true or false.

 

[probus]

So if the speaker had continued "... or you won't like what happens next" the utterance would have constituted a statement (linguistically speaking)? ;-)

 

[jutfrank]

So if the speaker had continued "... or you won't like what happens next" the utterance would have constituted a statement (linguistically speaking)? ;-)

The declarative structure of you won't like what happens next means that that part is a statement, yes, but only that part.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Can someone please tell me if the following is a question or statement? Please don't let me come home to find the car not fixed because you are watching a movie.

Welcome, Shareo!

1. Punctuate the ends of all sentences. There are no exceptions.

2. Look up the definitions of these two words:

- cause

- because​

3. Always tell us where you got your sentences. Did you make them up? If not, where did you find them?

That way we will know whether the mistakes are yours or someone else's.