{"id":71753,"date":"2019-08-24T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T08:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71753"},"modified":"2019-08-24T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T08:52:55","slug":"imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In sentences like <em>Come here, Be quite, and Get me a drink,<\/em> the verb forms come, be and get are called imperatives.<\/p>\n<p>Affirmative imperatives have the same form as the infinitive without to. Negative imperatives are constructed with <em><strong>do not (don\u2019t) + infinitive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Try again.<br \/>\nEnjoy your holiday.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t lean out of the window.<\/p>\n<p>Imperatives are used, for example, to tell or ask people what to do, to make suggestions, to give advice or instructions and to express wishes for people\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The imperative does not usually have a subject, but we can use a noun or pronoun to make it clear who we are talking to.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody answer the phone.<br \/>\nAlice come here.<\/p>\n<p>In writing, an imperative is often punctuated with an exclamation mark.<\/p>\n<p>Wash your hands!<br \/>\nDo your homework!<br \/>\nDon\u2019t smoke in the house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#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":[841,842,379],"class_list":["post-71753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-imperative","tag-imperative-sentences","tag-imperatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71753","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=71753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71754,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71753\/revisions\/71754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}