Tagged: imperatives

Imperative

In sentences like Come here, Be quite, and Get me a drink, the verb forms come, be and get are called imperatives. Affirmative imperatives have the same form as the infinitive without to. Negative...

Making negative commands

Study the following sentence. It is a command. Go there. We can convert this into a negative command by putting ‘don’t’ at the beginning. Don’t go there. More examples are given below. Go near...