We assume that it all happens naturally and are only confronted with the need to understand and define how English works when we learn another language or attempt to teach English to others. | 144 GRAMMAR FOR EVERYONE usefulness of using shall for the first person and will for second and third in the indicative or statement mood. So I shall do it when emphatic becomes I will do it and It will be done when emphatic becomes It shall be done. Activities emphasis A 1. a. Students each write a given number of sentences each containing some form of emphasis and underline the stressed word or words. b. Students each in turn read out one of their sentences using their voices to convey the emphasis for example We were so sick on that boat. 2. The sentence Did you really do that is written on the board and students read it emphasising each word in turn for example Did you really do that Did you really do that etc. Mood Definition The word mood comes from Latin modus and refers to the mode or manner in which an action is expressed. Before studying mood students should know about the different kinds of sentences verb tenses for all kinds of statement apart from the conditional auxiliary verb forms Many people have no idea what mood means and believe that it is an obscure perhaps old-fashioned grammar term. In reality mood is a verb form which as the term implies describes the mode or manner in which an action is spoken about and it affects every sentence we utter. In English there are just three moods. The first two indicative and imperative we have been practising from the beginning. The third subjunctive is the worry as it is misunderstood and therefore confused though in reality it is straightforward and lends clarity and subtlety to our language. The subjunctive mood causes confusion for several reasons the first being the decline in grammar instruction in recent decades. The second is the process of attrition by which some finer points of language get lost over centuries. Thirdly the remaining forms in some cases duplicate the indicative forms so those subjunctive ones get overlooked or deemed unnecessary. But they are still with us and without being .
