Zusammenfassung der Ressource
IMPERATIVES
- It is used to give orders, provide
suggestions or make invitations. It is the
easiest verb tense to learn. Here you have
many examples with translations.
- Today, it’s much more common to
use let’s than let us to form the first
person plural in the English
imperative mode.
- Basic form:
- go
sit
eat
study
run
leave
- Imperative
(second person)
- Go!
Sit!
Eat!
Study!
Run!
Leave!
- Imperative
(first person)
- Let’s go!
Let’s sit!
Let’s eat!
Let’s study!
Let’s run!
Let’s leave!
- EXAMPLES
- Are you hungry? - Yes, let’s eat!
That’s my bus. - Really? Run! I’m not
hungry, Mom. - I don’t care. Eat!
- Imperative Mode Formation: To form the
imperative in English, the basic form of the
verb is used. *For the second person singular
and the second person plural, the imperative
form is identical to the basic form of the verb.
*For the first person of the plural, it is said (let
us or let's’s) before the basic form of the verb.
- Affirmative form:
- Come here
Go there
Open the
door
- Negative form:
- Don't cross the street
Don't say that Don't
be so mean