• E. I wish that he could come.
• 2) mood of advice, permission, necessity, guessing, possibility, prediction, request, condition and oblige is expressed by using the modal verbs like may, might, can, could, should, would, must, ought to…….eg.
• A. The hunters have been lost for days. They could starve!
• B. May I have a look at your pictures? • C. When going by airplane, you should arrive at
2. Mood in Chinese
• In Chinese, emotional particles like “啦”,”吧”, “呀”, “啊”, “嘛”, “呢”, “哪”plus intonation are used to express different kinds of mood.
the airport at least one hour earlier. • D. A man landed on Mars? You must be joking.
That can’t be true. • Imperative mood often indicates commands. Eg. • Look out when crossing the street. • Read out loud please.