Imperative sentence pattern
In imperative sentence (command), sometimes you is invisible.For this reason verb always sits at the first of the sentence. And another part is like assertive sentence.Here is the pattern of imperative sentence--
Pattern A
Subject + verb + object(verb and object)
(what/whom)
------- Read the book
------- Write a letter
------- Shut the door
Pattern B
Verb + Where
Come here
Walk to the door
Run across the field
Pattern A
Subject + verb + object(verb and object)
(what/whom)
------- Read the book
------- Write a letter
------- Shut the door
Pattern B
Verb + Where
Come here
Walk to the door
Run across the field
- Go home-imperative
- Open the door-imperative
- Have a cup of tea-imperative
- You smoke and your family suffers-assertive, not imperative
- You must do your duty-assertive, not imperative
- Please sit down
- Kindly give me a glass of water
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