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    The Imperative Sentence

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    The document defines imperative sentences and discusses their key characteristics: 1) Imperative sentences are used to express commands or requests, using the infinitive form of the verb. The implied subject is always "you". 2) Imperative sentences can be made polite by adding "please" or using phrases like "Would/Could you...". 3) Negative imperatives use "don't" or "Do not". Tag questions can also be used to soften imperatives. 4) Imperative sentences differ from interrogative sentences in that interrogatives ask questions rather than make requests or suggestions.

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    The document defines imperative sentences and discusses their key characteristics: 1) Imperative sentences are used to express commands or requests, using the infinitive form of the verb. The implied subject is always "you". 2) Imperative sentences can be made polite by adding "please" or using phrases like "Would/Could you...". 3) Negative imperatives use "don't" or "Do not". Tag questions can also be used to soften imperatives. 4) Imperative sentences differ from interrogative sentences in that interrogatives ask questions rather than make requests or suggestions.

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    The imperative Sentence

    Definition
    • Imperative forms

    Used to express a command or request. A simple command is made


    with the infinitive form of the verb

    Take off your shoes before you enter the mosque


    Turn off the light before you leave the room!
    Don’t park here, please!
    no smoking, please!
    Subject of imperative sentences
    Thought the subject usually isn’t obvious in imperative sentences, it’s
    there. The subject is always in the second person and is always the word
    “you”.

    a. (you) tell the truth, the whole the truth, and nothing but the truth
    b.(you) leave the package at the door
    c. (you) take me to the library
    d.(you) put that down now
    e.(you) don’t smoking here!
    Polite command
    a. By using “please” either at the beginning or at the end of the command sentence
    e.g. Please take off your shoes.
    turn off the light before you leave the room, please.
    b. By using “would/could you.......(please)?”
    e.g. Would you please take off your shoes before you enter the mosque?
    could you turn off the light before you leave the room, please?
    c. By using “do/would you mind + verb-ing......(please)?
    e.g. Do you mind taking off your shoes before you enter the mosque?
    would you mind turning off the light before you leave the room, please?
    Imperative sentence (negative form)
    a. By using “don’t” in front of the imperative. This can only made polite
    by adding please, either at the beginning or at the end of the
    sentences.
    e.g. Please don’t bother me now.
    Don’t talk to me like that!
    b. By using not after the verb mind. This can only be made polite by
    adding please, either at the beginning or the end of the sentences.
    e.g. Do you mind not smoking here, please?
    would you mind not bothering me now?
    Tag questions
    Taq question in imperative sentence are not the same as a typical
    interrogative sentences, another type of sentence. Interogative
    sentences ask a question but do not involve the same format for
    their request, sugggestion.

    e.g. Send me that email, will you?


    pass the potatoes, won’t you?
    Differences
    Imperative:
    a. Take me out to the ballgame, won’t you?
    b.Park in the lot nearby, will you?

    Interrogative
    c. Will you go to the ballgame with me?
    d.Can you park nearby?

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