Moods: Sentence and Factual Tense Forms
OBLIQUE MOODS IN SUBJECT CLAUSES
Subjunctive I a) Of the type:
It is necessary (it seems, it becomes) that he come.
It is important that a young man have real friends. b) In exclamatory sentences beginning with ‘How…’, ‘What…’:
How strange that she be here!
Suppositional mood a) In sentences beginning with: It is necessary that…
It is important that a young man should have real friends.
(syn. It’s likely + may/might + infinitive
It was probable that I might get an excellent mark.) b) In exclamatory sentences, beginning with:
How wonderful…!
How strange…!
What a shame…!
How wonderful that he should have joined us!
How sad that I should leave! c) In negative and interrogative sentences expressing (im)possibility.
Is it (un)likely that the reaction should occur?
OBLIQUE MOODS IN PREDICATIVE CLAUSES
Subjunctive I
a) After words with modal meaning (wish, advise, desire, suggest):
Our suggestion was that we take a tour round the city.
b) After ‘All I ask is that…’, ‘All we needed was that…’, etc:
All I ask is that you listen to me.
Subjunctive II/non factual tense forms a) After conjunctions as if…, as though…:
It was as if she were trying to tell him something. b) After verbs be, seem, look, feel, sound: I feel as though I had never been away. Indicative mood can be used when one is confident of the exactitude of the comparison: She looks as if she has a bath every morning.
Suppositional mood a) After words with modal meaning (wish, doubt, proposal, advice, suggestion)
My advice is that you should take smb with you. b) After ‘All I ask is that…’, ‘All we need is that…’:
All I ask is that you should listen to me. c) After words, expressing fear (conj. lest)
Our fear was lest we should be late.
OBLIQUE MOODS IN OBJECT CLAUSES
Subjunctive I a) After verbs expressing order, request, suggestion:
Tom insisted that we be also present. b) After the predicative
Subjunctive I a) Of the type:
It is necessary (it seems, it becomes) that he come.
It is important that a young man have real friends. b) In exclamatory sentences beginning with ‘How…’, ‘What…’:
How strange that she be here!
Suppositional mood a) In sentences beginning with: It is necessary that…
It is important that a young man should have real friends.
(syn. It’s likely + may/might + infinitive
It was probable that I might get an excellent mark.) b) In exclamatory sentences, beginning with:
How wonderful…!
How strange…!
What a shame…!
How wonderful that he should have joined us!
How sad that I should leave! c) In negative and interrogative sentences expressing (im)possibility.
Is it (un)likely that the reaction should occur?
OBLIQUE MOODS IN PREDICATIVE CLAUSES
Subjunctive I
a) After words with modal meaning (wish, advise, desire, suggest):
Our suggestion was that we take a tour round the city.
b) After ‘All I ask is that…’, ‘All we needed was that…’, etc:
All I ask is that you listen to me.
Subjunctive II/non factual tense forms a) After conjunctions as if…, as though…:
It was as if she were trying to tell him something. b) After verbs be, seem, look, feel, sound: I feel as though I had never been away. Indicative mood can be used when one is confident of the exactitude of the comparison: She looks as if she has a bath every morning.
Suppositional mood a) After words with modal meaning (wish, doubt, proposal, advice, suggestion)
My advice is that you should take smb with you. b) After ‘All I ask is that…’, ‘All we need is that…’:
All I ask is that you should listen to me. c) After words, expressing fear (conj. lest)
Our fear was lest we should be late.
OBLIQUE MOODS IN OBJECT CLAUSES
Subjunctive I a) After verbs expressing order, request, suggestion:
Tom insisted that we be also present. b) After the predicative