132 CHAPTER 3. MORE GRAMMAR
verb prohibitive formverb prohibitive formirregular prohibitive formEven easier than the imperative command, example sentences are:”Don’t come round a second time!””What, don’t look (at me).”( is anemphaticparticle, added to the end of a sentence as an extra
level of ”I am telling you ...”. This particle will be treated in more detail in
the chapter on particles.)
In addition to this rather simple prohibitive, we can also turn the
- imperative into a prohibitive, by using + +
. However, while grammatically sound, practically speaking this form
is very rarely used. This works for any verb, except for , which is
technically the same verb as but at a different formality/politeness
level. Rather than using + + , just + is used.