Moods

1. Direct

- the Indicative - expresses facts (i.e. the speaker represents the action as a real fact). Verbs in the Indicative mood have tense, aspect, voice.

e.g. He phoned an hour ago that he was starting at once.

- the Imperative - expresses the will of the speaker in the form of commands and requests.

- commands 

- requests 

- Let's 

- Will you

2. Oblique

- the Conditional - expresses the unreal action the unreality of which is due to the absence of the necessary conditions.

e.g. If I were free I'd go for a walk.

- Subjunctive II - represents the action as contrary to reality.

e.g. Oh, I wish I'd never seen him.

- the Suppositional - represents the action as problematic but not contradicting to reality ( i.e. as desirable, suggested, supposed).

e.g. It was better that she should go to Madam Donovan.

- Subjunctive I - is close to the suppositional mood in its meaning but is mostly used in the language of official documents and the American variant of English.

e.g. God save the Queen.