130 CHAPTER 3. MORE GRAMMAR
tences:
”Everyone, listen up!””Hurry up!””Oh come on, wake up already!”
There is a second way to issue imperative commands, using the verb
, which is the (normally) honorific counterpart to the verb. This
verb belongs to a set of verbs with a deviant and , so to see
how these differ, some bases:
meaning do issue be, come, go say beThis set tells us several things: first, it tells us that in the
special form - is the for. Second, it explains
why would become : its is simply. Third,
it tells us what we need to know to form a command using. If we
add the for , , to a verb’s , we get a command
that is less direct than a plain (and thus, more formal/polite), but is
still a command:
verb imperative
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