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8. Now look at the verbs in italics in the draft paragraph below. Edit the forms of the verbs that do not match the mood of the sentence in which they appear. Write the correct verb above the incorrect one.
(1) Jera could look at the great troll that now blocked her path. (2) It should
have swung its enormous club through the air almost lazily, though it wasn’t yet moving toward her. (3) “What if it was to attack?” Jera thought. (4) “I can make
a plan.” (5) She scanned the area immediately around her and looked for a means of escape. (6) “If I was to jump across the brook,” she thought, “I can reach that small cave.” (7) She jumped to her left as the club descended toward her.
9. Work with the class to create examples for each type of mood:
• Indicative Mood:
• Imperative Mood:
• Interrogative Mood:
• Conditional Mood:
• Subjunctive Mood:
10. Analyze the author’s use of mood in the following excerpt:
“Now, boy,” said the general quietly, “you are the heart of the army. Think of that. You’re the heart of the army. Listen, now.”
And, lying there, Joby listened. And the general spoke on.
If he, Joby, beat slow tomorrow, the heart would beat slow in the men. They would lag by the wayside. They would drowse in the fields on their muskets. They would sleep for ever, after that, in those same fields—their hearts slowed by a drummer boy and stopped by enemy lead.
But if he beat a sure, steady, ever faster rhythm, then, then their knees would come up in a long line down over that hill, one knee after the other, like a wave on the ocean shore! Had he seen the ocean ever? Seen the waves rolling in like a well-ordered cavalry charge to the sand? Well, that’s what he wanted, that’s what was needed! Joby was his right hand and his left. He gave the orders, but Joby set the pace!
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