One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for February 03, 2022

The hard part will be getting anyone to obey.

But you didn’t say “Simon Says”

I remember having to do this type of homework. Was a lot of fun.

“Be bossier.”

Was that last command directed at Joe?

I love that! Take a bath! Get a job!

I don’t recall exercises like this, to write commands. I would have loved it too…

She may be a bit advanced for this assignment.

i want to see the one for “Get a job”. My mother used to say that one to me often. So at 14, I got my first job. Thanks mom.

Ruthie IS a bossy britches.

Commands don’t use !s. They use periods. Exclamatory sentences end in !s.

Ruthie’s revenge.

Most commands put the verb first.

Somewhere in a novel about an English woman in India is a line about her only knowing the imperative tense in the local language because she only spoke it to her servants.