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> 寒くて、窓を閉めてください

I thought it can mean:

> Since it's cold, please close the window.

The book said we cannot use words that express speakers intent in the form of
requests, order, permissions, or invitations such as てください、しろ、ませんか. So the
above text is a wrong sample.

I have a hard time understanding what is wrong with it.
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Why is it incorrect to say 「寒くて、窓を閉めてください」?
I am not sure if in this case this is related to politeness as suggested in
some comments (my feeling is that this sentence would be weird in general,
regardless of the speakers social statuses/connections but maybe I'm wrong). I
guess politeness could come in in a sentence like:

寒いので、窓を閉めて下さい。

The above is perfectly correct but it's usage might require some care
depending who you are talking to.

Anyway, I believe that the expression discussed in your question is not
correct under a purely grammatical point of view as a ～て for example, is
followed only by sentences expressing an objective description or
development/course of events. So, it would be incorrect if what follows is
something that might depend on the action of someone else, such as a request
or an order.

There is an explanation in Japanese
[here](http://www.alc.co.jp/jpn/article/faq/03/234.html), that seems to be
related to what you are asking. Read this part for example:

>
> 実は、文には「客観的な叙述文・成り行きを示す文」とか、「話し手の意志や判断を表す文」とか、「相手への働きかけのある文」といった違いがあるのです。「～と、～」や、
> **理由を表す「～て、～」の文の文末には、「客観的な叙述文・成り行きを示す文」しか来ないのです**
> 。だから、「寒くて窓を閉めました」はいいのですが、「寒くて窓を閉めます」と言うと、話し手の意志が出るから、変な感じがするのです。

Now I wonder if the sentence you are discussing should be considered totally
wrong or just "imprecise", since in the above it just defines it as "変な感じ"
rather than saying that it is wrong.
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I'm Japanese and I answer from my point of view.

```

    寒くて、窓を閉めてください
    
```

This above sounds just weird

But if I add some words and make a sentence like below, it could be said

```

    ごめんなさい、ちょっと寒くて、窓を閉めてください
    
```

The point is that Japanese as a language does not have strict grammar rules
like they do in English

Whether a sentence sound natural or not sometimes depend on culture or just if
people are used to hear the sentence, especially for speaking Japanese.
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