Command Kinds of Speech Act
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Number three, we have to make it a national mission to educate our kids and train our workers better than anybody else in the world.
I want to recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers Because We know thats an area where we can not afford to fall behind. I want to
train 2 million workers at our community colleges for the skills that businesses are hiring for right now. And I want to work with colleges
and universities to the make sure that tuition does not keep on going up, Because our young people can not afford the debt that they are
taking on, and thats something we can do.
The example above is sentences uttered by Barack Obama on his nomination to be president in his second period. His campaign speech hold on October 27, 2012
at Nushua, New Hampshire. That sentence is a persuasive sentence that has function to giving suggestion,
because Barack Obama proposes that his plans to provides better education for children in the United States and also hired more workers. The fact can be seen from
the sentence “we have to make it a national mission to educate our kids and train our workers better than anybody else in the world
.” That is one of the missions that proposed by Barack Obama to get the sympathy of Americans, so they will influence
and give support for him to be a president. Moreover, Barack Obama also utteres the sentence “thats something we can do” to excite the supporters. He tries to give
suggestion to his supporters that they can make changes for a better America with the way America choose him to be a president.