Friday, 7 January 2011

Grammar Check: Moods Quiz

Moods

Grammar may make you moody but that's not what we're talking about now. Verbs have moods. Three of them. The three moods are indicative, imperative, and subjunctive.

(1) indicative - Used most often. For situations when facts and reality, as opposed to guesses, wishes, or imagined situations, are the content of a sentence or clause.
(2) imperative - These verbs are direct commands.
(3) subjunctive - The action or state specified by the verb is the object of a wish, a hope or fear, a request, a conjecture, belief or hypothesis, or is for some reason unreal.

Test your knowledge!


  1. If I WERE to dance, the children would laugh.
  2. indicative imperative subjunctive
  3. When Mark took off his tire, he FOUND a missing screw.
  4. indicative imperative subjunctive
  5. TAKE that soda outside.
  6. indicative imperative subjunctive
  7. We insist that Rebecca LEARN to share her toys.
  8. indicative imperative subjunctive
  9. The plumber recommended we CONSIDER the new toilet
  10. indicative imperative subjunctive
  11. Smoke FILLED the room.
  12. indicative imperative subjunctive
  13. Pulling up her socks, she CONTINUED the race.
  14. indicative imperative subjunctive
  15. If Robert WERE smart, he would see that Jane was a bad match.
  16. indicative imperative subjunctive
  17. She wouldn't believe it, even if we WERE to tell him the truth.
  18. indicative imperative subjunctive
  19. PUT the dog outside before he pees in the house.
  20. indicative imperative subjunctive


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28 comments:

  1. Very good - I got 8/10 first shot then got the full 10 - my problem area was understanding that a request was not a command - hey, might explain some personal problems I experience!
    Thanks Clarissa!

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  2. I prefer imperative, subjunctive and indicative kinda confuse me :)

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  3. Darn! I missed one. Sorry. :-(

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  4. I got nine out of ten - is that good?

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  5. Erm. Nope I won't say what I got. No way Jose!!

    LOL! Take care
    x

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  6. Okay, this thing doesn't like me. I took it twice and got 0/10, so I'm like, okay, I know I'm right, so I chose the same answer from every question and still received 0/10. LOL. Now I know I'm not that BAD at Grammar, really. :) I'm going to log out and back in to see what happens. :)

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  7. I must have missed this segment in English class. I was probably drooling over or daydreaming about a boy. I'll be back later to study up! Thanks for the helpful post.

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  8. Oh no, my mind does not work well on tests, do you have an oral version? :)
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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  9. How can you do this to us on a Friday morning Clarissa?

    Thanks for the grammar lesson.

    Michael

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  10. Rats - I missed one.
    Happy Weekend!

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  11. Love these grammar tips. Good reminder.
    Thanks.

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  12. 8 out of 10--darn it! Thanks for the post, though!

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  13. Don't worry, I don't think I have any way of tracking the numbers. It's a good way to self-assess though.
    CD

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  14. Yeah, it worked. I got a 9/10. :) But just hit the wrong answer on the one. Really. :)

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  15. cool. I got 8/10. Oopsies. I got myself mixed up.

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  16. Ha! 9/10! Awesome. That was fun!

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  17. I somehow managed 9 of 10. Pretty good considering I never scored that well on an English grammer quiz in my life.

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  18. grr. 8/10. this was amazing! thanks so much! christy

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  19. 8/10, not bad! Imperative and indicative verbs = more interesting writing~ :D

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  20. Oh dear, 7/10 first attempt. Hopefully I will remember what I've learnt!

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  21. 10/10, but that's because I'm a linguist and in French, Spanish and Italian there are actually different verb forms for each of these as opposed to English with just one.

    It's a little sad that I translated all the sentences to Spanish in my mind before I answered.

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  22. Thank you for the grammar reminders. They are much needed as my aging brain forgets more every day.

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  23. hi miss clarissa! i like the quizes mostly cause i been learning all that stuff from my teacher. on this one i got all 10 right! hooray for having a real good teacher. i didnt do so good on a couple other ones. ack.
    ...hugs from lenny

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  24. i cracked each of them and scored 100 (10/10)!!!!!!!!!!!! cannot believe it !!! i am bad bad bad with grammar.. but i wanted to learn it now.. and i did it!!!! thank you so so so much for this post!!! i am happy !!

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