Using Imperative Sentence

Bossy Woman Giving An Order

Imperative Sentence usually uses to give command and prohibition to other people. The imperative sentence is usually ended with an exclamation mark (!). It is usually used in the procedure text. In the Imperative sentences, you can find the same subject. That is ‘You’. How it can be?

Pay attention to these following examples:

• Close the door!
• Open the windows!
• Could you speak louder!

Imagine if someone talks to you using those sentences. Who is being ordered? That’s you, isn’t it? It means that all the imperative sentences employ ‘You’ as the subject.

The imperative sentence function:

I. To give command:

• Clean the whiteboard!
• Sit down, please!
• Go to your room!

II. To prohibit someone to do something:

• Don’t go to that school!
• Don’t leave me!
• Don’t forget to study!

Basically, you don’t need to write the subject when you are writing an imperative sentence. You can use the predicate which is usually a verb. How can you create an imperative sentence using certain adjective? Pay attention to the example bellow:

To give command:

• Be quite, please!
• Be Happy!
• Be nice!

To prohibit someone to do something:

• Don’t be so fool!
• Don’t be sad!
• Don’t be lazy, students!

It’s easy, isn’t it? You can put ‘be’ to replace ‘verb’.