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I hope nobody complains that this is about a sentence with adult content. The
quote is from the bestseller 『1Q84』, 第14章:

> 彼はブラウスを「脱がせ」、スリップの肩紐を「ずらせ」、その下にある。。。

I could not understand why 「脱がせ」 and 「ずらせ」 are used here. Those are imperative
forms (命令形), right?
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grammar imperatives
Could not understand why 命令形 (imperative form) is used in this sentence from 1Q84 book
This is not 命令形。 Nobody is telling anyone what to do here, but rather a
somewhat poetic description of the actions.

Think of it as shortened 「ずらせて」「脱がせて」。

Besides, 命令形 would be: ずらせろ。脱がせろ。Then, you are telling person A to undress
person B.
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Have you heard that there are two types of causative form (long and shortened)
in Japanese? What you are seeing is the 連用形 (aka masu-stem/pre-masu-form) of
ずらせる/ぬがせる (ichidan), not ずらす/ぬがす (godan). The masu-stem of ずらせる happens to be
the same as the imperative form of ずらす. (I assume you know how 中止法 works, but
in case you don't, please see the links in the comment section first.)

dictionary-form | masu-stem | te-form | imperative | potential  
---|---|---|---|---  
ずらす (godan) | ずらし | ずらして | **ずらせ** | **ずらせる**  
**ずらせる** (ichidan) | **ずらせ** | ずらせて | ずらせろ | ずらせられる  
  
The problem is, while ずらせる should be technically correct as the causative form
of ずる, modern Japanese speakers almost always prefer ずらす over ずらせる. Basically
you can think ずらす is an established transitive verb rather than a form of an
intransitive verb. Similar verbs include 動かす; while 動かせる should be technically
correct as the causative form of 動く, we almost always use 動かす (動かせる is
normally regarded as the potential form of 動かす). Likewise, ずらせ in your example
is technically not wrong but sounds fairly unnatural to me. (I don't know
whether this is Murakami's style.)

On the other hand, there are many verbs where long and shortened causative
verbs are used interchangeably. Example include 泣く (泣かして = 泣かせて), 驚く (驚かせ! =
驚かせろ!) and 巡る (巡らした = 巡らせた). 脱ぐ is one of such verbs, and ぬがし, ぬがして, ぬがせ and
ぬがせて sound equally natural in this context to me.
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