SUBJECT VERB OF INCOMPLETE OBJECT COMPLEMENT

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THEY MADE HIM PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION.
. I DECLARED HIS VIEWS USELESS.
WE ELECTED HIM CHIEF SECRETARY.
I APPOINTED MADHAVI MY PERSONAL ASSISTANT.
THE STUDENTS MADE MURTY CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM.
THEY NAMED THE GIRL PADMAJA.
I FOUND HER BEAUTIFUL.
UMA CONSIDERED DAKSHINA MURTY HER HUSBAND.
WE FELT THE PROPOSAL UNWISE.
THEY REPORTED MADHAVI [TO BE] AN AMERICA.
I SUPPOSED PADMAJA [TO BE] MY WIFE.
WE THOUGHT VDAYA [TO BE] A GRADUATE.
THE PEOPLE ANNOUNCED HER [TO BE] THEIR QUEEN.
INDIANS CALL GANDHI THE FATHER OF THE NATION.
I ALWAYS REGARD HIM MY FATHER.
WE HAVE KNOWN MURTY [TO BE] A GENIUS.
MADHAVI BELIEVED HERSELF [TO BE] A BEAUTY QUEEN.
WE CHOOSE JYOTffl OUR LEADER.
THE COURT DECLARED mM INNOCENT.
I FOUND HIM GUILTY.
THE JUDGE PRESUMED JANAKI [TO BE] INNOCENT.
I ANNOUNCED MYSELF [TO BE] A GREAT POET.
I FELT MADHAVI MY WIFE.
THEY FAILED HIM [AS] A GREAT REFORMER.
PEOPLE RECOGNISED NEHRU [AS] THE MAKER OF MODERN INDIA.
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Ex: Be kind to the poor! Be *Ex: It is suggested that a fly over bridge be built across the
polite to the strangers. Try railway tract.
to be honest. We recommended that the manager be dismissed from service.
We proposed that a committee be appointed to look into the
3. An entreaty:
Ex: Could you type this letter? matter.
May I park my car here?
Will you please open the window? 2. The Past Subjunctive

Note: Let is used for advice in first and third person. Ex:
Let me help you. Let us go there. Let him speak.
Note: The subject 'you' is omitted in Imperative Mood. Ex:
Post this letter, [you post this letter]
C. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
A verb which is used to express a wish, hope, desire, intentic
resolution in noun clause in the present and improbability in the ] is
known as the Subjunctive Mood.
Forms of the Subjunctive Mood
Present Subjunctive Past Subjunctive
(a) After the verb 'wish'
Ex: She wishes she were a beauty queen. We
wish we were in Delhi. I wish I stayed at
home.
(b) It is used after if to express improbability or unreality in the
present.
Ex: If we went there, we could see her. If I knew
English, I could go to America. If we had money,
we could live in a large house.
(c) After 'as if and 'as though'
Ex: He orders me as if I were his brother. She
talks as though she were a queen. He Spends
as if he were a rich man.

The Verb Other The Verb Other (d) After the phrase it is time+subject+past tense to indicate that it
Be Verbs Be Verbs is already late. Ex: It is time we went there. It is time I wrote
to her. It is time they stopped work.
I be Hike I were Hiked
We be We like ' We were We liked (e) After the phrases would rather+subject to indicate preference.
You be You like You were You liked Ex: I would rather you applied for the post. I would rather
Hebe He likes He were He liked you discontinued your studies. She would rather 'he lived
They be They like They were They liked with his parents.

1. The Present Subjunctive EXERCISE 20.

(a) It i» used in traditional phrases expressing a wish of he
Ex: Long live the queenl May God save the Country!
May heaven help you!
Correct the following sentences:
]• If you are a fool, you would accept the offer.
2- If she was a teacher, she would explain it well.
•*• If I have Money, I would lend you.
4
- If Padma had asked me, I could give it to her.
5
- It is time we realise the value of time.
"• It is time she return home.
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Fill in the blanks with correct form of verbs in the following senten 1. CONDITIONAL TENSES
Padma said that she ____ (will, would) marry me.
2. My friend said that he ____ (is, was) a reporter. are three types of conditionals in English.
3. My father said that honesty ____ (is, was) the best poli
4. They said that they ____ (are, were) going to Delhi. Open Condition: It tells us that something w
5. He said that he ____ (saw, had seen) a film yesterday. certain condition is fulfilled. This condition
6. She says that she He _ (will, would) post the letter, (is, fulfilled.
7. feels that he _ will be) sad about his faihi ___
8. We believe hard work (will pay, pays) in the crickf Form:
present Perfect in 'if clause + Subject + will/sh
EXERCISE 48. in main clause.
Correct the following sentences: If Clause Main Clause
1. She said that she is a teacher in a school. Simple Present Subject + will/s
2. John Keats said that A thing of beauty was a joy forever. Plain Infinitive
3. He said he has posted the letter.
4. They said they are planning to stay in Delhi. If you come early we shall begin t
5. She said that she will help me in the work. If she loves him will marry him.
6. We said that we have a desire to visit Agra. If I find a job my mother, he w
7. My father said that books were very useful to students. If he reads the book she can speak en
If I teach her may help you.
If you tell the truth

12. Improbable or Imaginary Condition: It tells u

may not take place.

Form:
Simple Past in 'if Clause + Subject + would/sh
Infinitive [Verb]
Main Clause
JfClau se ast Subject + would/should/could mig
Tense Infinitive [Verb]
we would deliver the g
* vou paid the amount I could talk to her.
JJ 1 saw Madhavi I could study in Amer
J'1 had money I would ask for her au
«she were a film star : they might sell it.
jl^eyhadahouse [ he might not t
°andhi were alive in the country.

place because a particular condition was not fulfilled.
Form: « one side among some people, you ___ (Be) blindly prejudiced. If you
Past Perfect in 'if Clause + Subject + would/should/could/n +
have + Past Participle in main clause
If Clause Main Clause
Past Perfect Subject + would/should/c might + have + Past Pa
you would have faced seve financial troubles.
If you had resigned the job
If I had married Madhavi I would have been happier*! she
If Madhavi had read my books might have praised me he might
have become an (
If Nagarjuna hadn't been an
actor
I could have married Ma
If I had been healthy
EXERCISE 49.
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the corn, of
the verbs given in brackets: 1. If you ___ (think)
air-conditioning is a product of the i century, you _____
(mistake).-
2. The total off-spring of a single pair of files, if they ___ (I
to the end of summer, ___ (create) a mound big enq
cover Germany to a depth of 14.3 metres.
3. It is a rule of corporate life: the less important you
organization. The more you will be missed if you show) up
for work.
4. This is the age of bargain hunters. If it ___ (Be) like J
biblical times, we would probably have been offered
commandment free if we ___ (accept) the first ten.
5. Medicine has become so specialized that if a head cold|
(move) into your chest, you have to change doctors.
6. The secret of living is to find people who will pay you : do
what you would pay them if you ___ (have) mone)
7. Notice on a school wall: please do not write your name
walls. If you are good enough, we ___ (remember) yc
he migni nave discovered soiar-energy.
There are at least two sides to every question of the day. If you take
___ (take) the same side among the other people, you ___ (Be) an
objective viewer. If you __ (refuse) to take any side, you are a fool. If
you ___ (manage) to take both sides and get away with it, you should
enter politics. 10 If You were mar"eci a™* y°u ___ (want) to dissolve the
marriage, ' j ____ (handle) the case free just for the thrill of filling.
11. Advertisement is a Sussex, England, newspaper: Dentist urgently
requires secretary-receptionist telephone. . if you ___ (not, get)
any answer, the post ___ (Be) still
vacant.
12. If the thermometer had been two centimetres longer, we ___
(freeze) to death.
13. i ___ (dismiss) you, If you do that again.
14. We will be late, if we ___ (not, hurry) up.
15. If you murder your wife, you ___ (Be hanged)
EXERCISE 50.
Correct the following sentences: 1.
If I am you, I should help her.
If you are a doctor, you could cure her.
If he has come, I could have asked him.
If I were a film star, I shall marry Sridevi.
If he had come, I could help him.
If she will love me, I shall marry her.
7. If Padma is a good teacher, she would explain it very well.
8. If I have money, I could lend you happily..
9. He would stay in America, if she marries him. 10-
If I know english, I could get a better job.