Grammar: Verb Mood

Question 1

In grammar, mood is used to refer to a verb category or form which indicates whether the verb expresses a fact or opinion (…..), orders and instructions (….), or expressing a wish of possibility (…..)

Answer 1

indicative

imperative

Subjunctive

Question 2

The indicative mood is used to make ….
It is the mood of simple assertion, interrogation, or exclamation.
It states an ….. or ….
All … can express the indicative mood. Used in ….. and ….. voice.

E.g Richard jumped the neighbour’s fence

Answer 2

Statements

Opinion or fact

Tenses

Active and passive

Question 3

The imperative mood has both singular and plural, but only one person, the …..

Imperative active found in its …. form e.g to be is …
Imperative passive is a verb phrase consisting of ‘be’ and a …. …..

Answer 3

Second
Simplest
Be

past participle

Question 4

The subjunctive is used after certain expressions that contain an ….. or a request, a ……, or a …..

Answer 4

Order

hypothetical
Wish

Question 5

Subjunctive

The subjunctive is typically found with the word …. and with verbs such as suggest, demand, insist, ask, recommend

Answer 5

That

Question 6

With subjunctive, the … is dropped in third person singular

Answer 6

S

E.g it was suggested that he wait till the next morning.

Question 7

With subjunctive, was becomes …. when preceded by words such as: if, as if, as though, and unless, wish

Answer 7

Were

E.g If I were taller, I would have been a model

Question 8

With subjunctive, was becomes were when preceded by words such as: 5 options

Answer 8

if, as if, as though, and unless, wish

Question 9

Subjunctive used when … and ….. are used at the beginning of sentences or clauses when the subject follows

Answer 9

Be and were