The Imperative - Commands

Command forms in Spanish may be challenging because they differ depending on five possible intervening factors:

·whether the command is given informally (with "tú") or formally (with "usted")
·whether the command is negative or positive
·whether the command is given to one person or many people
·whether the verb is reflexive
·whether there are direct or indirect object pronouns

Each of these five factors can be mixed together to create a wide variety of possibilities.

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