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Click on the video and listen to the information about types of sentences. Then answer the questions below.


  • What type of sentences are the instructions of this activity? Read them again:
'Click on the video and listen to the information about types of sentences. Then answer the questions below.'
  • According to the video:

1. _____________ sentences inform.

2. _____________ sentences direct.

3. _____________ sentences ask.

4. _____________ sentences express strong feelings.



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How would you  make the following imperative forms into negative?

AFFIRMATIVE  NEGATIVE
Click on the video.
  
Listen to the information.
  
Answer the questions.
  

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In this topic, we are revising imperative sentences. They are very easy:

FORM:

As we have seen in the video, imperative sentences have no subject. The subject of an imperative sentence is the person to whom the reader or writer is talking, but the 'you' is only implied.

We use the infinitive of the verb without 'to'. To make the negative imperative, we use 'do not' or 'don't' before the verb.

Listen to the video.

Don't listen to the video.

USE:

Imperative sentences can give orders, warnings, advice, requests, instructions or directions.

A. The following two sentences have the same end: to have someone to open the window. But what is the difference in meaning between...?

1. Could you open the window? (interrogative sentence)

2. Open the window. (imperative sentence)

B. How can we make the second sentence into a request?

Icono de iDevice Self-Assessment activity
Use the imperative form (affirmative or negative) of these verbs to complete the following pieces of advice on how to learn English:

revise, do, cheat, leave, do, practice, listen, read

1. carefully to the videos.

By GrahamKing, C. Commons

2. the activities in all topics.

3. regularly.

4. your work for the last day.

5. the texts.

6. your pronunciation with Alice.

7. your homework.

8. in exams!

  

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There is another way to express imperatives in English.

Let's go!

Let's not argue!

In this case, you include yourself in the imperative by using 'Let's'.


Icono IDevice Further knowledge
Practice imperative sentences by doing these exercises:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

 


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