It will be found equally suitable for quick reference to details and for the more leisured study of broad grammar topics. A useful feature of the book is the inclusion of example texts and conversations, many of them authentic, to show how grammar is used in connected writing and in speech. | 3 STATEMENTS QUESTIONS IMPERATIVES ETC PAGE 22 3 Other uses of the imperative Slogans and advertisements Save the rainforests. Visit historic Bath. Suggestions and advice Why don t you spend a year working before you go to college Take a year off from your studies and learn something about the real world. Warnings and reminders Look out There s a car coming. Always switch offthe electricity first. Don tforget your key. Instructions and directions Select the programme you need by turning the dial to the correct number. Pull out the knob. The light will come on and the machine will start. Go along here and turn left at the lights. Informal offers and invitations Have a chocolate. Come to lunch with us. Good wishes Have a nice holiday. Enjoy yourselves. NOTE Have a chocolate. Would you like a chocolate Have a nice holiday. I hope you have a nice holiday. 4 Imperative question tag After an imperative we can use these tags willyou won t you would you can you can tyou couldyou a We can use a positive tag after a positive imperative. Teacher Get outyour books will would can couldyou The meaning is the same as Will you get outyour books but the pattern with the tag is more informal. A negative tag expresses greater feeling. Doctor Keep still won t can tyou This suggests that the doctor is especially anxious that the patient should keep still or annoyed because the patient cannot keep still. b In warnings reminders and good wishes the tag is won tyou after a positive imperative and willyou after a negative. Have a nice holiday won tyou Don tforgetyour key willyou In offers and invitations the tag is willyou or won tyou Have a chocolate will won tyou These tags make the sentences more emphatic. PAGE 23 19 The imperative 5 The imperative with a subject We can mention the subject you when it contrasts with another person. I ll wait here. You go round the back. You can also make an order emphatic or even aggressive. You be careful whatyou re saying. NOTE a A few other phrases .
