Unit 10.2

Emphatic Imperative

Verb Phrase

Introduction

Imperative clauses are used when people tell someone else to do something (an advice, a suggestion, a request, a command…).

Emphatic imperatives are mostly used for polite requests.
{See Present and Past Emphatic Tenses, Level B1}

We can make emphatic imperatives using do + infinitive.

We usually use emphatic imperative in polite requests, complaints and apologies.

Sometimes we add the pronoun you to imperatives, to emphasize it or to show the receiver of the imperative.