Imperatives

• You as the subject of an imperative

  Most imperatives are made to the second-person singular or plural, but the pronoun is not stated.
• Second-person imperatives

  Punctuated with an exclamation mark or a period occassionaly.
• Most imperatives are usually said with courtesy.
• Please 


  The inclusion of this word softens the tone of a command.
• A comma placed after the initial please suggests impatience or exasperation.
• Third-person imperatives


  Imperatives of this type begin with the contraction let's and are followed by an infinitive phrase.
• Let's 


  This contraction conveys the person giving the command wil participate in the action of the command.
• Infinitive phrases that follow let's omit the particle word to.
• Let without contraction



  Without "us", the speaker of the command is suggesting someone or something to perform an action.
• How about

  An imperative sounding more like a suggestion than a command.