Mood
Mood comes from the Latin word modus, which means manner
Def.- Mood is the mode or manner in which the action denoted by the Verb is represented.
There are three moods in English:
1. Indicative Mood
2. Imperative Mood
3. Subjunctive Mood
1.INDICATIVE MOOD
The indicative mood is used (a)To make a statement of fact (b) To ask a question
(c)To express a supposition (which is assumed as a fact)
(a)To make a statement of fact
Ex.He goes to school daily.
The man is alive.
The sun rises in the east.
(b) To ask a question
Ex.Have you found your pen?
What is your name?
(c) To express a supposition which is assumed as a fact.
If it rains, I shall stay at home.(assuming as a fact that it will rain)
If I go to school, I will call you.
A Verb which makes a statement of fact or ask a question, or expresses a supposition which is assumed as a fact , is in the Indicative Mood.
2.IMPERATIVE MOOD
The Imperative mood is used to express :
(a) A Command (b) An exhortation,(advice) (c) An entreaty or prayer
(a) A Command: as,
Come here.
Open the door.
Stand up.
(b) An exhortation,(advice) : as,
Take care your health.
Try to do better.
(c) An entreaty or prayer: as,
May God bless you.
Have mercy upon us.
A Verb which expresses a command, an exhortation,an entreaty or prayer is in the Imperative Mood
Note: 1.The Subject of a Verb in Imperative Mood (you) is usually omitted.
2.It is used in the second person
3. But in the First and Third persons this sense is expressed by the auxiliary verb Let .
Let me go.
Let us go.
Let him go.
Let them go.
3.SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
The subjunctive mood scarcely exists in present day English.
