Imperatives Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.1.1.J

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In sentence form, imperatives are sentences with the purpose of making the audience do something. It is not necessarily trying to manipulate the audience it is intended for. It is more like giving the audience a purpose for the general good. This can be a command for a task for them to complete or a series of steps they need to complete. They can also be warning that something is about to happen. Imperatives are one of the three moods of verbs. They are often seen as directives that must be followed, but as we said before they can also be requests that are optional. Imperatives are often focused on the wellbeing or what is best for the community, but they can also be used to dictate terms or conditions. These worksheets help students get familiar with the use of imperatives in sentences.

Imperative Worksheets To Print:

Simon Says - This is a fun way of doing it up. The pictures should offer a decent point of reference for students on this worksheet.

Affirmative To Negative Inferences - See how you can best flip the switch on these. This may be a bad way of doing things, pun intended.

Imperative Sentences - Take them and run from top to bottom. You will be asked to provide balance to this system.

Staying Healthy - Common hygiene practices are vital to a young life. Fill the words into the sentences by using the word bank.

Be A Star Student - Take them all the way up! This also fits nicely on a Smartboard or overhead. You will need some color in your day.

Polite Imperative Sentences - Write polite commands or request driven statements using the word "Please" where appropriate according to each scenario.

Write The Negative - Write the negative imperative sentence according to each scenario. These are found in situations where someone sense something is inappropriate and needs to be stopped.

Stories with the Imperative - Choose the characters from each story who uses the imperative sentence form by writing "I" in the blank.

You Make Me Want To Shout! - Choose one of the phrases in the box to complete the sentences below. These can be seen as requests or commands it depends on the context that they are used in.

Are You Done? - Choose a verb from the box and use it to create an imperative sentence. You can disregard the capital letters in the word bank.

Gives You Command - Write an imperative sentence using the key word, image, and correct punctuation.

Blanks It Up - Complete the following recipe with the verbs in the box. Once again, the capital letters should not shape your answers.

Fill Those Blanks - Fill in the blank spaces with the choices given and number the pictures. This can be used as a quick and simple review.

Correct Verb Form - Fill in the correct form of the verb. We give you clues as to what the word needed means, but you have to be creative.

What A Chore - Match the imperative verb to complete sentence. These words start off all the sentences.

More Related Topics:

Sentence Based Responses To Prompts - You can use several different types of responses here.

Using Punctuation for Effect - Learn how to fancy and also learn that small changes have a big impact.

Recognizing Imperative Sentences

The first dead giveaway that you have spotted an imperative sentence is that it in exclamation mark. This does require you to look further into the sentence and make sure that it is some way is issuing a directive of sorts. Many students will learn this little trick and think all sentences that end in an explanation point are imperatives, but this is simply not true. Especially in story forms authors will use exclamation marks to indicate yelling or a sense of urgency and these simply are not commands or requests.


The second solid way to identify imperatives is to look at verbs in begin of the sentences. You are trying to determine if the verb is in a command form, if so it's an imperative. The last consideration should be the subject. This in some cases doesn't help at all and in other cases is your key piece of evidence. Imperatives often don't clearly state a subject. Subjects are implied, since an order is being given.


Imperatives in the Real World


Writing in this manner often makes people take action. You will regularly see this in anything that revolves around safety. Have you seen a safety sign lately, they often display a picture and then a quick imperative statement that you feel compelled to follow. The message must be getting through to people because a recent study in the Northeast United States showed that when road safety signs are put in place, they reduce accidents by an average of 43%. The cost of the signs pales in comparison to amount of property damage and bodily harm they save their communities from.


Imperative verbs are the gold standard in all forms of marketing and advertising. Take a look at just about any type of advertisement. Regardless of the medium that is being used to get that message to you, the arrangement of the verbs are there to persuade you to act and subtly command you to take action. Taking action and having you buy or deeply consider buying is the ultimate goal of advertisers and this is how they get you to lean in that direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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