Cornell Notes Commands With Pronouns And Review Of Informal Commands

Cornell Notes: p. 106 Commands with pronouns and review of informal commands Regular affirmative Informal Commands

To tell a person to do something, use an affirmative command. Tú commands are used with family and friends (anyone you would speak to as "tú"). The regular affirmative tú command is the same as the él/ella form of the Present Indicative Tense: ¡Habla! You could also think of it as being the same as the tú form, but without the "s."

Example Walk! = ¡Camina! Pronoun Placement for affirmative commands

Eat! = ¡Come!

Open! = ¡Abre!

If you use an affirmative command with a direct object pronoun, attach the pronoun to the end of the command: ¡Abre la puerta --> ¡Abrela! If needed, add an accent mark when you attach a pronoun in order retain the original stress. (Remember that if not marked with an accent, a word that ends in a vowel or the consonants n or s is stressed on the nextto-last syllable.) ¡Escribe! ¡Escríbelo!

Irregular Affirmative tú commands

Remember how to form regular affirmative tú commands? You use the present indicative tense tú form, but drop off the "s": ¡Habla! ¡Come! ¡Abre! Some verbs have irregular affirmative tú command forms: Definition

Affirmative tú command Tell/say decir di Do/make hacer haz Go ir ve Come venir ven Put/set poner pon Leave salir sal Be ser sé Have tener ten Remember that when you use a pronoun with an affirmative tú command, you attach the pronoun to the end of the command: ¡Hazlo ahora! Infinitive

Negative Tú Commands

When you tell someone what not to do, use a negative command. Negative commands are formed by starting with the yo form of the present tense, dropping the o and adding the appropriate ending: Yo form Present Negative Tú Tense Command hablar hablo ¡No hables! comer como ¡No comas! venir vengo ¡No vengas! Notice that the vowel in the ending changes to the "opposite" of that of the infinitive. An -AR verb's vowel changes from "a" to "e" and -ER/IR verbs change from "e" or "i" to "a." Infinitive

Examples

There are a few irregular negative tú command verbs: Irregular Negative tú commands

Definitions Don’t give Don’t be Don’t go Don’t know Don’t be Don’t look

Infinitive (yo form) dar (doy) estar (estoy) ir (voy) saber (sé) ser (soy) ver (veo)

Negative Tú Command ¡No des! ¡No estés! ¡No vayas! ¡No sepas! ¡No seas! ¡No veas!

With negative tú commands, pronouns are always placed before the verb: ¡No lo uses! ¡No la escribas! Pronoun Placement with negative tú commands