Please help me in splitting this sentence in two

How do you want to split it?-- Mr. X advised the former PM. He said, "Don't be a 'pilot in the cockpit whose flight can be hijacked at gunpoint'."

Not become; don't act like.

1) You told me - Not become; don't act like.

Then What is the difference between the two

I want to be a doctor.

I want to become a consultant

2) Don't be a pilot.......

Does "Be" represent "become" here

I want to be a doctor = I want to become a doctor (approximately; the latter has slightly more emphasis on the process).


In the passage you quoted, however, be has a different meaning: act like.

Don't be an idiot.
Don't be a patsy.
Don't try to be a hero.

All these mean don't act like a/an idiot/patsy/hero.

You want to tell : Don't Be / not to be = act like

Am I right?

But if we do not use it in a negative sence like - Be / to be then what does it means?

No, Rajan. In the sentence and phrases I am discussing, be = act like.

All right, act like / be an idiot! Go bungee jumping!
Please act like / be a hero and get me another beer from the refrigerator.
Mr. X advised the former PM not to act like / be a 'pilot in the cockpit whose flight can be hijacked at gunpoint

Thank you so much for your patience and guiding me.

But I have one more question

1) Be Honest. Can I take this sentence as "Act Like Honest"

2) Be Sure. We can not fit Act Like in this.

3) What is the difference between "Make Sure" and "Be Sure"

Here, what does "be" mean ?

No, now you have shifted to adjective complements, where be is the copula indicating possession of a quality. The imperatives that you have listed in #1 and #2 exhort the listener to exhibit or acquire the qualities of honesty and assurance.


#3 -- Via a couple of dictionaries:

make sure: make a point of doing something; act purposefully a

I am confused here. The following question has also been one of my problem.

In Imperative sentences, there is no need to mention the subject

1) Go there, Come here.

In Sr. No. 1, there is no mention of Be.

Be is a copula, a linking verb, that is used to link the subject of a sentence with its complement.

But in adjectives, we ha

In your #1, there is no be anyway, except in passive (he is seen) and progressive (he is going) forms:

Go there. -- The verb is go not be.
I always go there.
Have you gone there?

Come here. -- The verb is come, not be.

Be there or be square. -- The verb is be, not go

But when you want to tell me that you have shifted to adjective complements, where be is the copula. What do you want to tell.

Can we also say BE is used with adjectives in imperative sentences where BE is a verb and when BE is used with Noun it function as act like.

Sorry for troubling you. This "be" always put me in trouble and would like to so