Now, in this grim refresh, we will be talking about imperatives, and when you hear the word imperative,
all that means is it is a command or it is an instruction.
So how do you give commands or instructions in English?
Well, the first thing to know is that.
In imperative sentences, we normally don't use a subject.
Right, because if you think about it, if you're giving a command to someone.
Don't need to pay the subject's name or address the subject, because they should already.
No, it's going to then you're already talking to them so many times you'll see these imperatives without
a subject.
And if it's the negative form, you're going to include that do not a combination, right and do is
known as an auxiliary for helping.
Let's look at our examples to make this a little bit more clear.
The first example says go straight ahead and take the first turn on the right.
So the first thing to notice is there's no subject, OK?
And our word are main verbs to stay in their base form.
We're not changing them at all.
They just stay in their main base form or verbs to go and to take.
And it just goes straight ahead.
And that's one command and take the first left turn on the right.
There you have another command.
These are imperatives.
The next example is a negative version of the imperative, and it's it says don't be shy and ask for
directions.
So the first part here is negative.
Don't be shy.
So we have that auxiliary.
Do not.
Becomes a contraction.
Don't.
Then don't be shy.
The verb to be shot, don't be shot in the next part of that sentence is another command ask for direction.
And again, you can see there is no subject to these commands, very easy to make, very easy to do,
just take your main verb and change it.
That is the base for.
In this grammar refresh, we will be reviewing or learning about there is and there are.
There is and there are very useful phrases.
The phrases everyone learns right away, we use these phrases about the location or ask about how many
of these things exist.
Or to introduce something.
OK, so we use is a is it a noun following this phrase is singular, but we'll use R if the noun is
plural.
Right, but there is a huge supermarket right next to.
Or there are.
Twenty oranges or there is a dog in the house, so we're going to change depending on the now, but
let's look at the example sentences.
The first one is you can't miss it.
There is a huge supermarket right next to you.
So here we're talking about the supermarket and there's only one of them.
What we're using is right there is a huge supermarket and a lot of times when you speak or when native
speakers are speaking these phrases a kind of mush it together so that I'm saying there is a huge supermarket,
they're going to put that there is together and say there's a there's a huge supermarket right next
to you.
Again, I'll say it more casually as a native speaker, you can't miss it.
There's a huge supermarket right next to there's a.
There is a kind of becomes there's a there's a.
And is it there's a huge supermarket next to.
The next example sentence is you should check out some of the lounges, there are five of them here.
There are five of them here.
OK, here we have it, we're talking about plural.
That's right.
Five of them have to are there are five all right.
You should check out some of the lounges.
There are five of them.
And again, we can kind of watch this one together.
There are.
There are there there were five of them there, kind of just kind of blended all together.
There are five of them.