Transcript What mood? Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive?

MOOD
Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive,
Conditional, and Interrogative
What is mood?
▪ LIFE DEFINITION
▪ How you are feeling at a given time
▪ LITERATURE DEFINITION
▪ The reader’s emotional response
▪ The atmosphere of a story
“Mood” in Grammar
▪ DEFINITION: The form a verb takes to
indicate the ATTITUDE of the person
using the verb.
Tense, Voice, Mood
▪ TENSE – shows time (past, present,
future)
▪ 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)
Five Verb Moods
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Indicative
Imperative
Interrogative
Conditional
Subjunctive
Indicative Mood
▪ Expresses a fact or opinion
It is 84 degrees in here.
I think I am going to pass out.
Practice
▪ Write one sentence in indicative mood.
▪ It may be either a fact or an opinion.
▪ List as many indicative mood sentences
as you can while listening.
Imperative Mood
▪ Direct command or request
Show me the money.
Now give me the money.
Don’t call the police.
Practice
▪ Write one sentence in IMPERATIVE
mood.
▪ List at least five imperative mood
sentences from the video as you listen
and watch.
Subjunctive Mood
▪ PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE:
▪ To express a suggestion, a necessity, or an
indirect command/order
▪ PAST SUBJUNCTIVE:
▪ To express an untrue condition (hypothetical
statement), or a wish or desire.
What does the subjunctive
mood look like?
Present Subjunctive:
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.
Present subjunctive cntd.
▪ 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.
▪ PAST SUBJUNCTIVE
I wish you were in my English class.
I wish Mrs. Ryfun and Mrs. Smith weren’t
so awesome.
If I were you, I wouldn’t do that.
What does the subjunctive
mood look like?
Common verbs:
ask, demand, determine, insist, move,
order, pray, prefer, recommend,
regret, request, require, suggest, and
wish.
Practice
▪ Write one sentence in PRESENT
SUBJUNCTIVE, and one sentence in
PAST SUBJUNCTIVE.
Assignments
▪ Homework: Creative writing assignment
using active voice and subjunctive mood.
What mood? Indicative,
Imperative, Subjunctive?
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Maria translates articles into Spanish.
I wish you were here.
Bring me the towels.
I suggest that you be quiet now.
Please be quiet.
The coach asked that each player practice
twice each day.
7. The coach wishes the rugby team ___ more
motivated.
Subjunctive Review
▪ As you watch the clip, pay close attention
to the key words that make these
sentences subjunctive.
Conditional
▪ Indicates a conditional state that will
cause something else to happen.
▪ Common key words: could, would,
should, might, or must
Conditional
▪ Examples:
▪ If we use our time wisely (conditional state),
we might get to go home early. (What will
happen?)
▪ Ivan could find a better job if he visited an
employment agency. (What is the
conditional state?) (What would happen?)
▪ Hill would arrive in town earlier if he leaves
Brantley County tomorrow morning. (What
is the conditional state?) (What would
happen?)
Practice
▪ Rewrite the three subjunctive mood
sentences as conditional.
Interrogative
▪ Indicates a state of questioning
▪ In the interrogative mood, the subjectverb order is inverted.
Interrogative
▪ Examples:
▪ Will Dad take out the trash tomorrow?
▪ Have we completed the final project?
▪ Will you walk to the library tomorrow?
Practice
▪ Write one interrogative mood sentence.
Review of five moods
▪ As you watch the video, circle and label
examples of the five moods that you
recognize.
Inappropriate shifts
▪ An inappropriate shift or inconsistency in
the verb of a sentence confuses the
reader. Shifts in a verb mood can make
reading difficult and obscure the
sentence's meaning. To correct the shift,
both clauses in the sentence should be in
the same mood.
Inappropriate Shifts
▪ Inappropriate Shift
▪ Eat ice cream, and you will jog around
the playground.
(imperative) (indicative)
▪ Correction
▪ Eat ice cream and jog around the
playground.
(imperative) (imperative)
Inappropriate Shifts
▪ Inappropriate Shift
▪ You could eat ice cream, but why couldn't
you jog around the playground?
(indicative) (interrogative)
▪ Correction
▪ You could eat ice cream, and you could
jog around the playground.
(indicative) (indicative)
Inappropriate Shift
▪ Inappropriate Shift
▪ If you were to eat ice cream, you will jog
around the playground.
(subjunctive: hint "if/were") (indicative)
▪ Correction
▪ If you were to eat ice cream, you would
jog around the playground.
(subjunctive past form "were")
(subjunctive past form "would")
Practice
▪ Correct this sentence:
▪ Always count your blessings, and you
might feel fortunate if you compare
yourself to others.