So far, we have been talking about the subjunctive, and how one of the main ideas of the subjunctive is to have one subject trying to inflict his or her will upon another subject. Your command forms can be viewed in the same way. Just as with the subjunctive, your mother, brother, friend, boss, priest, lawyer, bookie, etc can advise, recommend, suggest, or even DIRECTLY ORDER that you do something, but there is never a guarantee that you actually WILL do it.

Your affirmative formal commands-- the usted and ustedes forms--are used to "politely" command an individual or group of individuals to do something. A good starting point for forming your usted commands is by following the same process you would use for the formation of the present subjunctive:

1. take the "yo" form of your verb in the present indicative tense
2. drop the –o
3. switch endings: for –ar verbs, add "-e"; for –er/-ir verbs add "-a" or "-an", depending on the number of individuals that you are commanding.

Included are : ser (sea/sean), dar (dé/den), estar (esté,/estén), saber (sepa/sepan), ir (vaya/ vayan)

**Pronouns are ATTACHED directly to the end of your command form. Be aware that when you do this, you are adding extra syllables to your word. This calls for an accent to be written in over the stressed syllable:

**Be aware that your negative usted commands are formed simply by placing "no" in front of your command.