What Is Mood?
Mood is the form a verb takes to show how it is to be regarded (e.g., as a fact, a command, a wish, an uncertainty).There are three
major moods in English:
-
The Indicative Mood. This states facts or asks
questions. For example:
- They are playing the guitar.
- Are they playing the guitar?
- The Imperative Mood. This expresses a command
or a request. For example:
- Play the guitar!
- Please play the guitar.
-
The Subjunctive Mood. This shows a wish or
doubt. For example:
- I suggest that Lee play the guitar.
- I propose that Lee be asked to play the guitar.
- If I were Lee, I would play the guitar.
Reasons why a verb becomes indicative
· it is neither subjunctive nor jussive
The imperfect indicative mood verb does not restrict itself to any idea of time; it indicates enduring existence, begun and incomplete, either in past, present or future time.
It indicates an act which does not take place at any one particular time to the exclusion of any other point in time, but which takes place all the time, or rather in speaking of which no notice is taken of time, but only of duration. In English grammar, we call it "the indefinite present". A verb in the indefinite aspect is used when the beginning or ending of an action, an event, or condition is unknown or unimportant to the meaning of the sentence. The indefinite aspect is also used to indicate an habitual or repeated action, event, or condition.
Reasons why a verb becomes subjunctive
· it is preceded by أنْ, either explicitly or hidden after لِـ, حتى, and certain other particles
· it is preceded by لن
· it is preceded by كي
· it is preceded by إذن
Reasons why a verb becomes jussive
· it is preceded by لم
· it is preceded by لما
· it is preceded by the لـ of imperative
· it is preceded by لا of prohibitive
· it is preceded by the conditional إنْ, whether it be explicit o implicit
Interrogative
particle + Verb: Imperfect; First Person;
plural; [Form-IV] + First Object Pronoun: Second person; plural;
masculine; accusative state + Suffixed Second Object هَا: Third person;
singular; feminine, in accusative state.
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