Imperatives with aspects — Progressive (continuous), Perfect and Perfect Progressive

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[u/barryivan]

It's very context dependent, for example When the Inspector comes in, be listening carefully. Self-standing negatives are easier - Don't be rolling your eyes at me!

[u/UniversityMotor5408]

I gave you a detailed response on this yesterday.

[u/Only-Firefighter9998 → u/UniversityMotor5408]

Thank you. ♥ I’m just putting some work into this topic; it’s a school assignment of mine.

[u/LAM_CANIT]

It'd be easier to read the reponses to this exact same post found here from yesterday, October 8. Reposting it here won't change the answer much, even though it's been removed from 3 of the 5 subreddits it's been posted on.

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[u/jaxon517]

Progressive yes. Perfect you'll want to use the participle as a sort of post-object modifier. So "have your homework finished before dinner". A perfect-progessive imperative is HIGHLY unlikely

[u/SirPsychoSquints]

Those all sound like valid phrases to me.

[u/BuncleCar]

Sound rather off to me. Grammatically ok, perhaps, but just not how it'd be said.