The quote "keep looking up, that's the secret of life" is a statement or command?

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how to classify this sentence, cause while it start out as a command, the intent is to state that "the secret of life is to keep looking up", so what is the correct way to classify that sentence.

Mary · Answer

The clause "Keep looking up" is an imperative, but the sentence as a whole is a declarative, merely about that imperative.

rajah9 · Answer

It's a command, called a hortative.

urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.

(From The Free Dictionary)
It is an imperative (lacking the You in (You) keep looking up.
The imperative Keep looking up is a hortatory, serving a function in the vein of "Make a plan to vote," "Maintain social distancing," or even the simple, "Let's go!"

The quote "keep looking up, that's the secret of life" is a statement or command?

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