Moods: classification

Direct Moods	Indirect (Oblique) Moods
The Indicative Mood	Subjunctive II. Subjunctive I. The Suppositional Mood The Conditional Mood
The Imperative Mood

Oblique Moods The building of forms

	Subjunctive II.	Subjunctive I.	The Suppositional Mood	The Conditional Mood
Present* (non-perfect)	= 2 form of the verb	= (bare infinitive)	should + non-perfect infinitive	would + non-perfect infinitive
Past* (perfect)	= Past Perfect		should + perfect infinitive	would + perfect infinitive
Syntactic structures	Simple sentences			Simple sentences
Syntactic structures	Subordinate clauses			Principal clause of a Complex sentence; Coordinate clause

Oblique Moods

(the verb to write)

	Subjunctive II	Subjunctive I	The Suppositional Mood	The Conditional Mood
Present*	wrote were written were writing were being written	write	should write should be written should be writing	would write would be written would be writing
Past*	had written had been written had been writing		should have written should have been written should have been writing	would have written would have been written would have been writing

Types of Conditional Sentences

Types of Conditional Sentences	Sentence patterns
«zero» type	If the price of a product falls, demand for it usually rises. If inflation rises, the value of people’s savings goes down. If I stay out late, I take a taxi. If someone interrupted him he got angry. If there was a scarcity of anything prices of that thing went up.
1^st-type	If you give me an extra day’s holiday, I’ll work this weekend. If the government raises taxes in the next budget, consumer spending will fall. If the traffic is OK we’ll get to the airport in time. If the weather is good, they’ll have the party in the garden. I’ll be disappointed if I’m not promoted this year. What will happen if they don’t believe me?
2^nd type	If trains were more reliable, more people would use them. If I had his mobile number, I’d phone him. If I lost my job tomorrow, I’d move to London to find another one. If I were you, I would call the technical support helpline. If everyone contributed 20% of their salaries to charity, there would be no poverty. Would it be all right if I came round at about seven?
3^rd type	If she had invested her money in a computer company, she would have made a lot of money. They would have gone out of business years ago if they hadn’t invested in new technology. If we had put up our prices, we wouldn’t have kept our market share. If the flight had been delayed, I would have stayed at the airport hotel.
mixed type	If she had invested her money in a computer company, she would be a rich woman today. If he had taken my advice he would be a rich man now.
mixed type	If she were not so absent-minded she wouldn’t have left her umbrella.