Lecture 16.ppt

Lecture 16 Subjunctive Mood Teaching Contents 16.1 BE – subjunctive 16.2 WERE - subjunctive Mood , as a grammatical category, is a finite verb form that indicate whether an utterance expresses a fact, a command or request, or a non-fact and hypothesis. There are three types of mood: indicative mood, imperative mood and subjunctive mood. There are two forms of subjunctive mood: be – and were- subjunctive mood. 16.1 BE - subjunctive The be-subjunctive, like the imperative, is realized by the base form of the verb. Whatever the person of the subject, the predicator invariably take