"make sure"

Question

How do you say this in spanish.

As in: make sure you do your homework, or make sure you call your parents.

This is my try:

"Asegúrate que usted hagas su tarea."

Chau

Tim

Answer 1

Perfecto as far as asegúrate goes.

I'd say - asegúrate de que hagas tu tarea.

(remember that the te and the tu need to match, you can't have te and su)

Answer 2

¨Hagas¨ is the "tú" form so usted isn´t needed. Since you start with ¨Asegúrate¨ and ¨hagas¨, for consistancy I´d use ¨tu tarea¨.

One more issue is the informal command which uses the imperative form. If you´ve studied the subjunctive ¨hagas¨ you may want to know this one, ¨asegúrate¨.

I´m not totally positive about my thoughts so others feedback may be more correct.