LIFE DEFINITION ▪ How you are feeling at a given time LITERATURE DEFINITION ▪ The reader’s emotional response ▪ The atmosphere of a story GRAMMAR DEFINITION ▪ The form a verb takes to indicate the ATTITUDE of the person using the verb.
Express a fact, opinion, or question It is 84 degrees in here. I think I am going to pass out. Can we please turn the heat down? Write one sentence in indicative mood.
Direct command or request Show me the money. Now give me the money. Don’t call the police. Write one sentence in IMPERATIVE mood.
PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE: To express a suggestion, a necessity, or an indirect command/order PAST SUBJUNCTIVE: To express an untrue condition, or a wish or desire.
Common verbs: ask, demand, determine, insist, move, order, pray, prefer, recommend, regret, request, require, suggest, and wish.
YOUR Turn 1. Write a poem entitled “If I Were the Other Gender.” 1. Three stanza required. 2. WAIT! What grammar corrections should we make to this poem?