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This study breaks away from existing theoretical studies to analyze the predicates of English imperatives in usage. This study included adjective imperatives as well as verb predicates in English imperatives and attempted to represent a comprehensive usage of the English imperative predicates used by English native speakers. Data for the study were collected from the British National Corpus web and analyzed using the collocation function within the BNCweb and web-based semantic analysis program, Wmatrix 5. The results are as follows: although the meanings of both verb and adjective predicates fail to demonstrate in semantic consistency, adjective predicates in negative imperatives are often related to Emotion. Syntactically, verb predicates are often used with personal pronouns and prepositions, while adjective predicates are often used with to-infinitives or independently.