2. Percakapan dibawah ini cukup panjang dan menunjukkan cara memberi instruksi
dalam bahasa Inggris. Perhatikan kakalimat-kalimat imperative yang digunakan dalam
memberi instruksi (giving instruction).
Rani: You know, I’m thinking about designing a website for our company.
Bidu: You’re right but we have no one who has got good command of codding and
webbing.
Rani: That doesn’t matter. We can learn it. Let me read the instruction to make a
website. First of all, login to home page. Click on the ink in the navigation panel.
Then, click the ‘Sign Up Now’. Now create your Website.
Bidu: Wow. That’s easy. I think we can do it.
1) Command
There are some giving instruction in command form that usually we use in the dialy
life, those are:
Direct/Impolite:
"Go!"
"Get that for me."
"Stop!"
"Put that away."
Indirect:
"Go, please."
"Get that for me please."
"Stop, please."/"Please, stop."
"Put that away, please."
Negative:
When we want to tell someone not to do something, we simply add "do not" or the
shorter form "don't" before the verb. This shorter form is much more common.
"Don't (do not) go."
"Don't get that."
"Don't/Never say that!"
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