{"id":1761,"date":"2017-01-21T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:07:59","slug":"making-negative-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/making-negative-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"Making negative commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Study the following sentence. It is a command.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can convert this into a negative command by putting \u2018don\u2019t\u2019 at the beginning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t go there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go near the cliff. (Positive command)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t go near the cliff. (Negative command)<\/li>\n<li>Talk to him. (Positive command)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t talk to him. (Negative command)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be so rude.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t call me again.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t open that envelope.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t waste your time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make the following commands negative.<\/p>\n<p>1. Shout.<\/p>\n<p>2. Wait.<\/p>\n<p>3. Go.<\/p>\n<p>4. Stop there.<\/p>\n<p>5. Come here.<\/p>\n<p>6. Sit there.<\/p>\n<p>7. Walk on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>8. Put the books on the table.<\/p>\n<p>9. Wait for grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>10. Look around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Don\u2019t shout.<\/p>\n<p>2. Don\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n<p>3. Don\u2019t go.<\/p>\n<p>4. Don\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p>5. Don\u2019t come here.<\/p>\n<p>6. Don\u2019t sit there.<\/p>\n<p>7. Don\u2019t walk on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>8. Don\u2019t put the books on the table.<\/p>\n<p>9. Don\u2019t wait for grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>10. Don\u2019t look around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following sentence. It is a command. Go there. We can convert this into a negative command by putting \u2018don\u2019t\u2019 at the beginning. Don\u2019t go there. More examples are given below. Go near&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-imperatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}