Can someone give me examples and the meaning of the indicative and subjunctive mood?
The subjunctive mood is used to talk about imaginary or unreal situations or a desire like “If I were an animal I would be a dog”…you’re obviously not an animal and never will be…and you’re right it is often used in conditional sentences…another case of subjunctive is when it’s used with wish like “I wish I were a millionaire” or “I wish I had lots of money”…In English you use the past tense to form the subjunctive and if you need to use the verb to be, use “were” with all pronouns (I were, he were, she were, we were, etc) although when speaking many people say “If I was”… The conditional mood is the one that expresses lack of certainty and it occurs especially but no only in conditional sentences. There are five types of conditional the zero conditional expresses a situations that’s always true or often happen, for example “If I have a headache I take an aspirin” the first conditional expresses a situation which is likely to happen in the future, for example, “If it rains th
