You should create 10 sentences in total. Use affirmative or negative imperatives. For example: Carlos, don't eat in the classroom. Remember you can sound more polite if you add please at the beginning or the end of the sentence: Carlos, don't eat in the classroom, please.
Listen to the example audio and compare yours with it. Remember the pronunciation and intonation are important.
After you finish yours you can evaluate it with the rubric. Look at the verbs in the box. Fill in the blanks with the verbs to make affirmative or negative sentences. Azar, B. Basic English Grammar. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. American English File 1 Student Book. Oxford: OUP. Imperative - Exercises - Lingolia English. The imperative: affirmative and negative forms. For example, in a classroom the teacher usually uses expressions like these: Come to the front and look at the board.
Don't write at this moment. Objective: At the end of this topic you will: Use the affirmative and negative forms of the imperative to follow and give instructions, commands and orders in a classroom through school situations. Content The imperative Now let's see how to use imperatives.
Click on each concept to read the information. Affirmative imperative Negative imperative Affirmative imperative " Close the door, Ana. Negative imperative Don't eat in class. Go to page Pronouns attach to the end of affirmative commands. If the command form of the verb has more than one syllable which is usually the case and you attach a pronoun to it, the first vowel in the word gets an accent mark. As I mentioned previously, if your command uses a pronoun, you will place it between the negative word and the command form in negative formal commands.
No se levante antes de terminar la carta. Never buy junk food for the kids. Spanish verbs with irregular third-person singular forms in the present tense are also irregular in the affirmative informal imperative form. The only exceptions are the following 8 verbs, which have irregular affirmative command forms. Tell me your favorite color. Make the beds in this room. Pon este plato en la cocina. Put this dish in the kitchen. Come to my birthday party.
I command you! Just kidding. Try a free trial class with one of our certified Spanish teachers to practice these commands—plus learn more helpful verb tenses and vocabulary—while having a real-life conversation with a native speaker. Dance every day! These will also help indicate that the statement is an imperative, or a command form and, as a result, your voice would indicate this if it were a spoken command.
If a verb stem changes in the present tense, the command form will have the same stem change. Don't forget that this form is only used when the command is stated affirmatively.
Sometimes the context of the sentence will make it clear which of the two is intended; however, placing the subject pronoun after the command further clarifies the meaning. Notice in the following examples how using a subject pronoun will clarify these identical twins.
Let's be patient! Let's not be selfish! A typical situation is in a formal conversation or transaction, for example in a bank. Sir, sign here, please. Sir, do not sign here. Ladies, drink a little champagne. Ladies, don't drink so much champaigne!
Conduzca despacio. Drive slowly. Disminuya la velocidad. Reduce speed. No tiren papeles al suelo. Don't throw papers on the floor. Here's your change! Sir, don't run! Tell the truth!
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