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3->2 MAJOR GRAMMAR MODES:
INDICATIVE:
Maria went home.
Maria should go home at 5pm.
Maria has been eating ice cream all day.
INTERROGATIVE:
Did Maria go home?
Can Maria go home?
When should Maria go home?
Why has Maria been eating ice cream all day?
IMPERATIVE:
Go home, Maria!
Stop eating ice cream, Maria!
NOTE: main verb always goes after subject, while the placement of the auxiliar either before or after the subject distinguishes an INDICATIVE from an INTERROGATIVE.
In the case of the IMPERATIVE, the subject often goes unspoken (Example: (You) Call me!) but it is implied, and it also goes at the beginning, before the verb. The grammar of the Imperative is limited to YOU and WE in the PRESENT.
The IMPERATIVE is grammatically inferior to the other two because it cannot employ all tenses and persons.
IDENTIFY THE SENTENCE AS INDICATIVE, INTERROGATIVE, OR IMPERATIVE, then recreate the other two forms.
You work a lot.
The President of the United States is an idiot.
Are the cookies ready to eat?
Have you been informed by the secretary of our meeting on Friday?
Tell me the truth.
Do you know how to skateboard?
The refrigerator is empty.
I can´t find my keys.
The clothes need to be hung.
The music teacher know how to play 6 instruments.
Would your friends be interested in playing padel this weekend?
Moderna is one of the pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines for Covid.
Put the clothes in the washing machine.
This coffee is grown by farmers in Colombia.
RECREATE THE 3 GRAMMAR MODES (indicative, interrogative, imperative) WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
(Maria, bake, bread)
(Diego, drive, taxi)
(Michael, finish, emails)
(Sara, eat, pizza)
(We, walk, plaza)
(She, plant, tomato seeds)
(food, to be delivered, 8pm)
(We, arrive, before the guest of honor)
NOTE:
NOTE:
The Indicative and Interrogative moods are the two most important ones, as they can employ the full variety of tenses and conjugations.
The Imperative is not as important because it cannot be comprehensively conjugated.
There are other ones: imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential. But indicative and interrogative are the most used.
In fact, you can often express an imperative in a more polite form, using either the interrogative or the indicative.
TURN THESE IMPERATIVE STATEMENTS INTO INDICATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE STATEMENTS.
Study at least one hour every day.
Tell me the truth.
Don´t drink coffee near the computer.
Have patience with me.
Use sunscreen when you go to the beach.
Don´t talk back to your mother.
Check your spam folder for missing emails.
Go to the doctor for regular checkups.
Take out the trash before it begins to smell bad.
Make sure to get your covid test before you go on vacation.
EXCLAMATIONS STILL FOLLOW THE RULE, MAIN VERB AFTER SUBJECT.
How lovely this flower smells!
how cold the weather in the north is!
How stupidly the boys are acting.
What beautiful weather we are having
What a great deal this jacket is.
BUT PEOPLE OFTEN CONVERT EXCLAMATIONS TO INDICATIVES, AND MORE SO IN CONTEMPORARY SPEECH.
This flower smells lovely!
The weather in the north is cold!
The boys are acting stupidly!
We are having beautiflu weather!
This jacket is a great deal!
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