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Commands

Eat all your food!  Be nice to your sister!  Listen to me!  Don’t touch that! Don’t eat so many cookies! Don’t jump on the bed!

If you’re involved in child care, you probably find yourself giving orders like these. In order to do it Spanish, you need to know how to form affirmative and negative commands. The following are strategies for remembering how to do it.

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Affirmative commands

Negative commands

    Remembering irregular negative commands

 

 

 

 

 

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