This document discusses imperatives, or commands, in English. It provides examples of imperative sentences from cooking instructions and requests from a mother. Imperatives use the base form of the verb without a subject and can be made more formal by adding "do" in front of the verb. The document instructs the reader to write imperative sentences using sample verbs as an activity to practice this grammar structure.

1. Imperatives in cooking
instructions
Recursos y
Materiales
II
English IV

2. Have you ever been left alone and in
need of food, but you are a bad
cook?
I am not going to make you a
good cook, so do not get
your hopes up. I am merely
going to teach you English
while I show you pictures of
food to make you more
hungry

3. Let’s get cooking!

4. • When you cook, you have to follow certain
instructions, correct?
• Let me give you an example of how to pour
yourself a bowl of cereal:
1. Choose the cereal you like the most.
2. Grab a bowl for your cereal.
3. Pour the cereal into your bowl.
4. Pour the correct amount of milk into your bowl of cereal.
5. Enjoy!

5. • Now, you do not know that you were just
given commands.
• Think about it, did the instructions say: please,
if you want to, could you pour the cereal on
the bowl?
• I mean come on! Ask nicely!
• But, no. Commands are orders and you may
ask nicely, but must likely you do not.

6. • now, let’s think, when your mom tells you to
clean your room, does she ask nicely?
• Most likely, the first time she will, but since
you do not do it the first time around, she
will say: go clean your room!

7. • Commands have a special name. they are
called imperatives.
• imperatives is simply that, commands.

8. Structure
• The structure for imperatives is as follows:
– Verb in base form + predicate
Do + your homework.

9. • we can make imperatives more formal by
adding “do”
– Do be more careful.
– Do be quiet.
– Do get your stuff off the floor.

10. Activity!
Write down imperative sentences using these verbs… that’s an order!:
– Do
– Get
– Eat
– Clean
– Make
– Forget
– try
– Go
– Jump
– Run
– Swim
– Play
–Write
– Read