Mood

Question 1

Indicative Mood

Answer 1

• Used for facts (everyday sentences like “I went to the mall yesterday” or “I’m staying at my aunts house”)

Question 2

Imperative Mood

Answer 2

• Used for orders, commands and instructions
• Have No explicit subject (“Take off your shoe”)
• + (don’t) bare infinitive

Question 3

Subjunctive Mood

Answer 3

• Used for unreal things
• Wishes, probability, hypothetics
• Present Tense: **(“not”) + bare inf.
- Formulaic subjunctive: “heaven forbid”, “God save/bless…”, “Suffice it to say”, “so be it”, etc.
- Mandative subjunctive: V/Adj’s of Request + ‘that’ Noun clauses
• Past tense: unreal past