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Understanding Indicative Mood | No Nonsense Grammar

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Title:

 Understanding Indicative Mood | No Nonsense Grammar

URL:

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Overview:

Verbal moods indicate a state of being or reality. There are several types: indicative, the most common where the state of being is a pure fact; interrogative, which asks a question; and imperative, which is a command. It is important to remember that it is not the verb that determines the mood but the way it's used in the sentence. This resource provides instruction and practice with forming and using verbs in context in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive moods.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
20. Produce writing that shows a command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

a. Construct verbals (gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in pieces of writing, including isolated sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
b. Compose writing using verbs in active and passive voice to establish mood.

c. Revise their own writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

d. Construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.

e. Form and use verbs in context in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive moods.

f. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
20.
  • Standard English grammar
  • Standard English usage
  • Standard English mechanics
20a.
  • Verbals
  • Gerund
  • Participle
  • Infinitive
  • Isolated sentences
  • Paragraphs
  • Essays
20b.
  • Active voice
  • Passive voice
  • Mood
20c.
  • Revise
  • Mechanics
  • Commas
  • Apostrophes
  • Quotation marks
  • Colons
  • Semicolons
20d.
  • Simple sentences
  • Compound sentences
  • Complex sentences
  • Compound-complex sentences
20e.
  • Indicative mood
  • Imperative mood
  • Interrogative mood
  • Conditional mood
  • Subjunctive mood
20f.
  • Verb tense
  • Verb tense shift
Knowledge:
20. Students know:
  • The conventions of written standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
20a.
  • Gerunds, participles, and infinitives are types of verbals.
  • A verbal is a word derived from a verb that functions in a sentence as a noun or modifier rather than as a verb.
  • Verbals can be used in isolated sentences, paragraphs, or essays.
20b.
  • In the active voice, the sentence's subject performs the action.
  • In the passive voice, the subject is acted upon by the verb.
  • Different verb forms are used in active and passive voice.
  • Using active and passive voice in writing can create different moods.
20c.
  • The proper usage of commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
  • Strategies to correct punctuation mistakes during the revision process.
20d.
  • Strategies to write simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences to express relationships between ideas in writing.
20e.
  • Verb mood is used to refer to a verb form that indicates the meaning of the verb.
  • Verbs that express a fact are in the indicative mood.
  • Verbs that express a command are in the imperative mood.
  • Verbs that express a question are in the interrogative mood.
  • Verbs that express a condition are in the conditional mood.
  • Verbs that express a wish or possibility are in the subjunctive mood.
20f.
  • The tense of a verb tells you when a person did something or when something existed or happened.
  • Verb tense should be consistent in writing.
Skills:
20. Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate written command of standard English, grammar, usage, and mechanics.
20a.
  • Correctly construct verbals in various forms of writing.
20b.
  • Use correct verb forms for active voice and passive voice in writing.
  • Establish an appropriate mood for writing by selecting to write in either active or passive voice.
20c.
  • Revise their own writing with particular emphasis on the proper use of various punctuation marks.
20d.
  • Construct various types of sentences to represent the relationships among ideas, including simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences.
20e.
  • Form verbs to express various moods.
  • Correctly use verbs in various moods in the context of writing.
20f.
  • Identify inappropriate shifts in verb tense in writing.
  • Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense in writing.
Understanding:
20. Students understand that:
  • To clearly communicate in writing, they must use standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
20a.
  • The correct use of gerunds, participles, infinitives, and clauses is important to clearly communicate in writing.
20b.
  • Verbs in active and passive tense create particular moods in writing.
20c.
  • Specific rules for proper usage exist with various forms of punctuation.
  • Revision is an important component of the writing process to ensure accurate use of punctuation.
20d.
  • Using different sentence types in their writing can show relationships among ideas.
  • Different sentence types have different impacts on the overall meaning and organization of writing.
20e.
  • Different verb forms can be used to create a mood in writing.
20f.
  • To clearly communicate in writing and utilize standard English grammar conventions, they should avoid inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
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