The imperative mood deals with direct orders and commands and is formed with the

infinitive without the ´´to´´:

1. Tom, leave the room.

2. Take your books.
3. Gentlemen, do not forget your souvenirs

In order to seem les ´´direct´´, there is what we call, the mild imperative, which
functions exactly the same as the regular imperative, but softened with an interjection or
phrase:

1. Please, take your belongings.

2. If you are so kind, do not leave your things all over the place.

This section closes the verbs. Verbs form what is known as the core of the predicate and
in principle we do not need anything else to make the predicate work, but the predicate
may have complements. These are four: direct object, indirect object, predicate
noun, and predicate adjective. These complements have their rules, which in a way
makes it easier, for like a puzzle, each complement can function only under a particular
set of circumstances.

To begin, the direct and indirect objects can work with only action verbs.

A direct object is a noun or a pronoun following an action verb that answers to the
questions whom? or what? A sentence may contain more than one direct object, but the
rules don’t change.

1. Take your bags, Terence.

´´Take´´ is an action verb (somebody doing something) and if you ask ´´what?´´ to the
verb, you get an answer: bags.

2. I saw you and Sybil when we went to the Metropolitan.

Here we have to sets of verbs, but only one verb is taking a direct object. ´´Went´´ is an
action verb but if you ask ´´whom?´´ or ´´what?´´, you’ll get no answer (A trick: in
English, direct/indirect objects as well as predicate noun/adjectives are never, ever,
followed by a preposition). ´´Saw´´, however, does take not one, but two direct objects.
´´Whom did you see´´: you/ Sybil