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That doesn't clear anything up. We already established the fact that the sentence is "it's either a command (imperative) or a question (interrogative.)". But as I stated, it is an imperative by semantics and interrogative by syntax. The question was "Do punctuation marks obey syntax, or do they obey...

The semantic content of a sentence is the meaning of the sentence. So according to semantics the sentence in question is an imperative. However syntax relates to the grammar of the sentence. In a syntactical sense the sentence is a interrogative sentence. This issue is over a broader issue. Do punct...