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There are lots of mosquitoes at night, so you should take some mosquito<br />

repellent<br />

hasehat I:<br />

Nasehat 2:<br />

Nasehat 3:<br />

Nasehat 4:<br />

S'4<br />

Below are some situations in which negative imperatives are .<br />

appropriate. Write a sentence for each situation, using jangan, dilarang,<br />

tidak usah or tidak perlu.<br />

1 You are inviting a friend to your birthday party. Tell him that he<br />

does not need to bring a present (membawa), but that he should not<br />

be late (terlambat).<br />

2 Your little brother or sister keeps nagging you while you are<br />

studying. Tell him or her to stop bothering you (mengganggu).<br />

3 You have been asked to put up a sign in class in Indonesian that<br />

prohibits people from using their mobile phones (telepon genggarn)<br />

in class. What would you write? (memakai)<br />

4 You have just failed your exam and feel terrible about it. Your<br />

teacher is telling you not to be discouraged. What would he or she<br />

say? (berkecil hati)<br />

5 Your Wend is new to town, You want to advise her not to go out at<br />

night by herself. What would you say? (keluar)<br />

Imperatives that are expressed as transitive sentences often appear in<br />

the object-focus (passive).<br />

Object-focus imperatives are usuallv considered more polite, nonoffensive<br />

and less direct than their corresponding subject-focus (active)<br />

imperatives, because the focus of our attention is shifted from the doer<br />

of the action (which, in most cases, is the person to whom we are<br />

speaking) to the object of the sentence. It is like saying 'Let this be<br />

done', rather than 'You do this'. This form of imperative is also very<br />

common in Indonesian, but often cannot be translated literally into<br />

English.<br />

We can use object-focus imperatives for a wide variety of situations and<br />

with anybody. In fact, if you are not sure about whether or not you are<br />

being polite enough when you use the forms we have discussed so far,<br />

it is probably best to resort to the object-focus forms.<br />

Object-focus imperatives are not the easiest forms to learn, but they<br />

represent a more natural way of saying 'Do this' in Indonesian.<br />

Imperatives 183

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