Característica de las formas gramaticales de los verbos de inglés

República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación

Escuela Técnica Comercial Simón Rodríguez

Estado Bolivariana de Mérida

Written by:

Karina Andrade # 05

5to Turismo

Escuela Técnica Comercial Simón Rodríguez

Mérida, November 2014

Imperative Mood

The imperative is a grammatical mood that forms commands or requests, including the giving of prohibition or permission, or any other kind of exhortation.

An example of a verb in the imperative mood is be in English sentence “Please be quiet”

Characteristics

Don’t have subject

Imperatives imply a second-person subject sing/pl (you)

Present

Listener reactions ship

Commands

Commands is a syntactic sentence type in a language that is used primarily to express such illocutionary acts, and is described as having imperative form.

Characteristics

Exclamation sign (!)

There’s no choice, just complete the order

It start with a verb

Examples

Stand up!

Turn off the TV!

Leave your coat in the hall!

Close the door!

Clean the floor!

Instructions

Instructions are a given way of following things. They are given in a specific order so the outcome comes out as it was supposed to be in the beginning. Instructions are usually written in the active voice and the imperative mood: Address your audience directly.

Characteristics

Issues an message.

The message is addressed listener and reader.

The message expressed a order or council

present

Examples

Write a paragraph

Wash your hands before you eat

draws a line

Draw a big map

answer the question

Prohibition

The imperative is commonly used to forbid an action. It is simply a negative command me (or a cognate) is used before the imperative to turn the command into a prohibition.

The present tense prohibition may also just be telling a ‘general or customary precept’, without commenting on whether the action is going on or not.

The aorist tense in prohibitions does not always have an inceptive sense, but can just be looking at the action as a whole, also as a general precept.

Characteristics

Can be formed by using the negative adverb (not) with the present imperative or with the aorist subjunctive (or

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