Review: Verb Mood
Indicate whether the highlighted verbs in the following sentences are in the correct mood.
- If an elephant was to fly through this window, I’d eat your toque.
- The chef insists that the wholesaler deliver fresh salad greens every morning.
- It is crucial that Wendell arrives on time.
- If this apartment was any smaller, we would suffocate.
- The committee recommends that all three buildings are condemned.
- If Mae West was alive, she might enjoy Madonna’s performances.
- Watson requires that his personal trainer provides receipts.
- If messing up an office cubicle was an Olympic sport, Lynn would win a gold medal.
- Bunbury wished that Oscar Wilde were still alive to write a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest.
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