IMPERATIVE MOOD
Usado para ordens, conselhos, instruções e expressar o bem-estar de outras pessoas.
Estrutura:
Afirmativas: BASE FORM + COMPLEMENTO
Have some more tea.
Enjoy your break.
Try again.
Negativas: (DO + NOT) + BASE FORM + COMPLEMENTO
Don’t worry about it.
Please, do not lean out of the window.
Afirmativa Enfática: DO + BASE FORM + COMPLEMENTO
Do sit down.
Do be more careful.
Do forgive me.
APROFUNDANDO
O modo imperativo normalmente não possui sujeito na estrutura, mas é possível usar um substantivo ou pronome para deixar claro para quem a fala é direcionada.
Relax, everybody.
Emily come here.
Em negativas:
Don’t you believe it!
Don’t you dare.
Don’t anybody say a word.
OBS.: com ALWAYS e NEVER
Always remember what I told you.
Never speak to me like that again.
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
Usado após verbos como SUGGEST, RECOMMEND, ASK, INSIST e adjetivos como VITAL, ESSENTIAL, IMPORTANT para expressar sugestões, ordens, recomendações.
VERBO NA BASE FORM
It’s essential that every child have the same educational opportunities.
It was important that you contact Adam as soon as possible.
The judge recommended that Simmon remain in prison for life.
It is desirable that he not leave school before eighteen.
Também usado para expressar uma ideia hipotética.
VERBO NO SIMPLE PAST
I wish I were a nerd.
Carol wishes she were twenty years old again.
If I were in your place, I wouldn’t do it.
If we were in London, we would meet you.
