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[vestal lodge]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[past gazelle]

In your example, this sounds like a recipe. Recipes and instruction manuals in general use the infinitive instead of the imperative to make it impersonal.

Read more here:
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/impersonal-orders/

[feral sand]

Yes it is a recipe. If this was a normal sentence would sécher and faire be infinitive?

[past gazelle]

If you’re ordering someone, imperative

These are separate phrases basically