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Commands

Eat all your food!  Be nice to your sister!  Listen to me!  Don’t touch that! Don’t eat so many cookies! Don’t jump on the bed!

If you’re involved in child care, you probably find yourself giving orders like these. In order to do it Spanish, you need to know how to form affirmative and negative commands. The following are strategies for remembering how to do it.

Tú commands

Affirmative tú commands

Remembering irregular affirmative t� commands

• A song
• Hollywood actor as mnemonic device
• A chant

Negative tú commands

Forming negative tú commands

• A formula

Remembering irregular negative t� commands

• A song

Distinguishing between affirmative and negative t� commands

• Archetypal sentences in context