An Introduction to French Pronunciation

Dans quelle rue | l’avez-vous acheté?
Intonation 153
Note that the same intonational pattern occurs also when
the interrogative word is placed (as it frequently is in familiar
usage) at the end of the question, e.g.:
Tu pars quand? Il en a combien?
and in the (strictly speaking ungrammatical but also frequent)
construction in which an introductory interrogative word or
expression is not followed by inversion of the subject, e.g.:
Pourquoi tu dis ça? Où vous allez?
A quelle heure | ton frère arrive?
20.6 Imperative Sentences
20.6.1 Sentences including a verb in the imperative (e.g.
Reste! Asseyez-vous! Partons!) are frequently referred to as
commands, but since in very many cases (possibly even a
majority of cases) they express not so much a command, in
the sense of an order to do something, as an invitation (e.g.
Entrez!), a request (e.g. Venez me voir!), an instruction (e.g.
Allez tout droit) or a suggestion (e.g. Prenons une bouteille de
vin), it seems preferable to use the technical term of ‘imperative
sentence’.