Grammar - Verb Moods

If you want to tell someone what to do, what verb mood do you choose?

• Indicative

• Imperative

• Interrogative

• Subjunctive

Which mood would you use if you wanted to write about a dream that you knew couldn’t come true?

• Indicative

• Imperative

• Conditional

• Subjunctive

If you wanted to tell your little brother how much trouble he would be in if he ate the strawberries you had been saving, what mood would you use?

• Interrogative

• Imperative

• Conditional

• Subjunctive

The subjunctive mood of a verb is most commonly used....(check all that apply)

• when the subject is acting upon an object.

• in a direct question or a command.

• in contrary-to-fact or hypothetical statements.

• when something is probable, unlikely, hoped for or feared.

Which verb completes the sentence so that it uses the subjunctive form?

I wish I …………………….. able to join you, but it will not be possible.

• be

• were

• have

• am

Which option completes the sentence below so that it uses the subjunctive mood?

He systematically violated every UN resolution that demanded he ……………….. and ……………… his chemical and biological weapons.

• disarm - destroy

• disarms - destroys

• disarmed - destroyed

• is disarming - is destroying

Identify the inappropriate shift or inconsistency of verb mood in this sentence.

He was fond of his little sister, and if you have a loveable sibling you would feel the same thing yourself.

• from interrogative to subjunctive

• from imperative to indicative

• from indicative to conditional

• from conditional to imperative

Which sentence has an inconsistent voice?

• He walked down the hall while he texted at the same time.
• Billy picked up the garbage, and he loved doing it.
• Laura rode her bike down the street, and the skin was taken off her knees.
• The student knocked over the chair, and the teacher picked it up afterwards.

Which sentence has a consistent mood?

• Clear the table and then you should wash the dishes.
• Clear the table and then wash the dishes.
• If you clear the table, then you wash the dishes.
• I suggest that he clears the table.

Choose the correct subjunctive verb form to complete the sentence.

I wished that we _____________________ at Café Du Monde while we were in New Orleans.

• had ate

• would eat

• had eaten

• might eat