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You can use the imperative mood with some verbs when you are explaining something and you want the listener or reader to think about a particular thing or possibility, or to compare two things.

• Take, for instance, the new proposals for student loans.
• Imagine, for example, an assembly line worker in a factory making children's blocks.
• But suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same rate as computers.
• For example, compare a typical poor country like Indonesia with a rich one like Canada.
• Consider, for example, the contrast between the way schools today treat space and time.

Here is a list of verbs which are used in this way:

• compare, consider, contrast, imagine, look at, picture, suppose, take