Imperatives

Group 3, 29.7.21

Imperatives (👈PDF download here)

Present Simple and Present Continuous " Review"  (👈PDF download here)

The sentence which is used to convey a command, a request, or a forbiddance is called an imperative sentence. 

This type of sentence always takes the second person (you) for the subject but most of the time the subject remains hidden. 

Examples: 

Bring me a glass of water.

Shut the back door.

Find my blue jacket.

Be there at five.

Clean your room.

Complete these by tomorrow.

Consider the pink dress.

Wait for me.

Get out!

Make sure you pack warm clothes.

Please be quiet.

Be nice to your friends.

Play ball!

Sit down and eat your lunch. 

Review: Present simple and present continuous (👈PDF download here)

Imperative 

Noun

မရှိမဖြစ်သောအရာ။ အရေးပါသောအရာ။

free movement of labor was an economic imperative.

grammar စေခိုင်း ဝိဘတ်။

In 'Go away!' the verb is an imperative/is in the imperative.

~ imperatives plural

Adjective

fml အလွန်အရေးကြီး သော။ အရေးပါသော။

It is absolutely imperative that we make a quick decision.

fml အမိန့်ပေးသော။ စေခိုင်းသော။

an imperative tone of voice.

Coined words

 Group3 29.7.21

Coined Words (👈PDF download here!)

❙ Coined Words

When something new is invented, it needs a name.

A made-up name is called a coined word.

coin 

VERB

If you coin a word or a phrase, you are the first person to say it.

Jaron Lanier coined the term 'virtual reality' and pioneered its early development. [VERB noun] 

astronaut

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An astronaut is the pilot of a spacecraft.

Noun အာကာသယာဉ်မှူး ~ astronauts plural

Thesaurus

1. spaceman
2. cosmonaut
3. traveler
4. traveller

suburb

A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.

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A community outside a large city is a suburb.

Noun

ဆင်ခြေဖုံး

a quiet residential suburb.

~ suburbs plural

Thesaurus

1. suburbia
2. suburban area
3. residential district
4. residential area
5. community

hatchback

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A car with a hatch in the back is a hatchback.

Noun

နောက်ဖုံးဖွင့်ကား

~ hatchbacks plural

jazz  

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Jazz is music with strong rhythm and an accented beat that falls in unusual places.

Noun

အမေရိကလူမည်းတို့ စတင် တီထွင်သော လွတ်လပ်စွာ တီထွင်တီးမှုတ်နိုင်၍ စည်း ချက် ဝါး ချက် ပြင်းသည့်တေးမျိုး။ ဂျတ္ဇ်ဂီတ။

traditional/modern jazz.

~ jazzes plural

laptop

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A laptop is a small portable computer. 

Noun

ဘက်ထရီသုံး လက်ဆွဲကွန်ပျူတာ။

~ laptops plural

Thesaurus

laptop computer

portable computer

skyscraper

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A skyscraper is a very tall building.

Noun

မိုးမျှော်တိုက်။ မိုးထိတိုက်။

~ skyscrapers plural

Thesaurus

building  

edifice 

Noun ဗိမာန်။ They have bought some dreadful turreted edifice near Derby.

~ edifices plural

Verb

~ Edify တည်ဆောက်သည်။ စာရိတ္တဖွံ့ဖြိုးအောင် ဆုံးမသည်။)

nylon

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Nylon is a material made from chemicals.

Noun

နိုင်လွန်

This material is 45% nylon.

dated အမျိုးသမီး အသားကပ်နိုင်လွန် ခြေအိတ်ရှည်။

~ nylons plural

Thesaurus

1. man-made fiber,
2. synthetic fiber,
3. polyamide,
4. polymeric amide,
5. fabric,
6. cloth,
7. material,
8. textile,

takeout

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Prepared food that you take home to eat is called takeout.

COUNTABLE NOUN

A takeout is a store or restaurant which sells hot cooked food that you eat somewhere else.

[US]

REGIONAL NOTE:  

in BRIT, use takeaway

monorail  

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A monorail is a train that runs on a single track.

Noun

တစ်လမ်းပြေးရထား။ မြေပြင်မှ မြှင့်ထားလေ့ ရှိသည်။

~ monorails plural

Thesaurus

railway 

railroad 

railroad line 

railway line 

railway system

infomercial

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An infomercial is a TV program that gives information and also sells a product.

infomercial

(ɪnfoʊmɜːʳʃəl)

Word forms: plural infomercials

COUNTABLE NOUN

An infomercial is a television programme in which a famous person gives information about a company's products or services, or a politician gives his or her opinions. The word is formed from 'information' and ' commercial'.

Tr. Thu 

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