A. Wallwork
, English for Research Usage, Style, and Grammar,DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1593-0_11, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
11.1 imperative The imperative is formed with the infinitive without
to . It is used in manuscripts in order to. Remind the
reader of certain information, or bring attention to certain facts.
2. Give hypotheses.
3. Refer the reader to other sections in the paper or external documents.
YES YES 1
Recall that x = 1.
Note that the values of x may vary.
2 Let us
Suppose that x = 1.
Let x be equal to 1.
3 This is of great importance (
see below.
See Smith’s paper [23] for details.
11 Imperative, infinitive versus gerund (−ing form)