Affirmative tú Commands

Question 1

How many types of sentences are there in Spanish?

Answer 1

There are four types of sentences:

1- declarativa

2- interrogativa

3- exclamativa

4- IMPERATIVA

Question 2

What is a declarative sentence?

Answer 2

These sentences are statements and are punctuated by a period at the end of the sentence. For example,

Pancho goes to school everyday.

Question 3

What is an interrogative sentence?

Answer 3

These are questions and end with a question mark at the end of the sentence. For example,

Is Mrs. Salazar young?

Question 4

What is an exclamatory sentence?

Answer 4

These sentences express strong emotions, excitement, surprise and have an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence. For example,

What a great weekend!

Question 5

What is an imperative sentence?

Answer 5

These sentences make a polite request, a suggestion, demand, give orders, make a command and they end with period at the end of the sentence or sometimes, they end with an exclamation mark. For example,

Take out the trash.

Be quiet!

Question 6

How do I use affirmative tú commands in Spanish?

Answer 6

Use affimative tú when you want to tell someone directly to do something. For example,

• Saca la basura.*
• Pon la mesa.*

Question 7

How do I form the affirmative tú commands

with regular verbs?

Answer 7

If the verb ends in:

• ar drop the “r” > hablar > habla
• er drop the “r” > comer > come
• ir drop the infinitive -ir and add the “e”

escribir > escribe

Question 8

What are some irregular affirmative tú command?

Answer 8

So far we have learned the following:

poner > pon

hacer > haz

Question 9

What are the affirmative tú commands

of the following -ar ending verbs:

lavar cortar

pasar quitar

arreglar cocinar

dar limpiar

sacar

Answer 9

lavar > lava

pasar > pasa

arreglar > arregla

dar > da

sacar > saca

cortar > corta

quitar > quita

cocinar > cocina

limpiar > limpia

Question 10

What the affirmative tú commads of the following

-er ending verbs?

comer

beber

leer

correr

ver

Answer 10

comer > come

beber > bebe

leer > lee

correr > corre

ver > ve

Question 11

What are some examples of affirmative tú commands with verbs ending in -ir?

Answer 11

escribir > escribe

abrir > abre

Question 12

What is the affirmative tú command of

poner?

Answer 12

poner > pon

For example,

Pon la mesa.

Question 13

What is the affirmative tú command of

hacer?

Answer 13

hacer > haz

For example,

Haz la cama.

Question 14

What type of sentence is the affirmative tú command?

Answer 14

Affirmative tú commands are imperative sentences / phrases.

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