Transcript Verb Moods

MOOD
Indicative (Interrogative) Imperative,
and Subjunctive (Conditional)
What is mood?
 GENERAL DEFINITION
 How you are feeling at a given time
 LITERARY DEFINITION
 The reader’s emotional response
 The atmosphere of a story
 GRAMMATICAL DEFINITION
 The form the verb takes to indicate the attitude of
the speaker/writer using the verb
All Verbs have 3 characteristics:
Tense, Voice, Mood
 TENSE – shows time (past, present,
future) and action (simple, progressive,
perfect)
 VOICE – shows who’s doing an action or
having action done to them
 MOOD – shows attitude (telling a fact,
giving a command, expressing a wish)
Indicative Mood
 Express a fact or opinion (a reality)
 Most verbs we use are in the indicative
mood.
1. It is 84 degrees in here.
2. I think I am going to pass out.
3. Her grandpa collects empty shampoo
bottles.
Write one sentence in indicative mood.
Indicative Mood
(Interrogative)
 This is a subset of the indicative mood.
 It is used to ask a question.
1. Do you have any notebook paper left?
2. Who ate the last piece of pie?
3. Why do we have to know this?
Write a sentence in the interrogative mood.
Imperative Mood
 Direct command or request
1. Show me the money.
2. Now give me the money.
3. Don’t call the police.
Write one sentence in IMPERATIVE mood.
Subjunctive Mood
There are two ways to use the subjunctive.
1. To express an untrue condition, or a wish
or desire.
 If I were a billionaire, I would end world hunger.
 If they were nicer, they would have more
friends.
 I wish you were here.
 It frequently follows the word “if” in the
dependent clause and is ALWAYS expressed
as “were” in the past no matter what the subject
is.
Subjunctive
2. The second way to use the subjunctive is to
indicate a formal request, demand,
requirement or order.
 My mother insists that I be home by 9:00.
 I demand that he leave immediately.
 Father requires that she eat her vegetables.
The verb in the dependent clause is in the
subjunctive. If it sounds unnatural imagine
that verb has the word MUST in front of it.
The presence of the one of
the following verbs in the
independent clause may
indicate that you should use
the subjunctive mood in the
dependent clause.
ask, demand, insist, move, order,
pray, prefer, recommend, regret,
request, require, suggest, and wish.
What does the subjunctive
mood look like?
Subjunctive indicating a requirement:
The teacher recommended that I be in her
class.
I recommend that you be on time the rest
of the year.
The judge suggested that we be given first
prize.
Subjunctive continued
 I demand that he do the assignment.
 Her mom insisted that she not play
tomorrow night.
 I insist that Michael come early.
 I strongly suggest that he cooperate with
the police.
SUBJUNCTIVE indicating a wish or
something contrary to reality.
I wish you were in my English class.
I wish Ms. Ortega weren’t so awesome.
If I were Ms. Baker, I wouldn’t do that.
Write one using each form of the
subjunctive.
What mood? Indicative,
Imperative, Subjunctive?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Maria translates articles into Spanish.
I wish Ms. Hurt were here.
Bring me the towels.
I suggest that you be quiet now.
Please be quiet.
Coach Black asked that each player practice
twice each day.
7. Coach Hooley wishes the rugby team were
more motivated.
Closely related to the
subjunctive mood is the
conditional.
WOULD
SHOULD
COULD
MIGHT
These auxiliary verbs are frequently used in
the independent clause following a dependent
clause using “If” and the subjunctive.
 If it were sunny, we could have our picnic.
There is usually a condition expressed in the
sentence.
 I might go if she agrees to stay away.