The subjunctive mood is for expressing wishes, suggestions, or desires, and is usually indicated by a verb such as wish or suggest, paired then with a subjunctive verb
Were. I'd do it if I were you.
It's the subjunctive mood.
"Would be" is a conditional tense in the subjunctive mood of the verb "to be".
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The verb should be in the subjunctive mood: "If I were you." However, use of the subjunctive is waning fast, and even careful speakers will occasionally get this wrong.
Yes, "you are hungry" is not in the subjunctive mood as it states a fact or condition that is real or true. Subjunctive mood is used to express a hypothetical or unreal situation.
Yes, "If I were an earthworm, I wouldn't have to think" is an example of the subjunctive mood. The subjunctive mood is used to express hypothetical or unreal situations. In this sentence, the speaker is imagining being an earthworm and the consequences of not having to think.
The subjunctive mood is used to convey uncertainty, hope, wish, hypothesis, contingency, condition, and so on, and can apply to all tenses. It is not related to any particular time. Additional words can be used to provide mood information, but that is different from using the subjunctive mood itself. Similarly, additional words can be used to provide information relating to the imperative mood, but that is not the same thing as using the mood itself.
There are two verbs in the sentence in question: is and be. The first verb is in the indicative mood. It is used to indicate true things about the world. The second verb is in the subjunctive mood. This mood is used to relay wishes, hopes, desires, or counter-to-fact assertations. The speaker is not saying that there is or isn't world peace, rather he is claiming that this is Tim's wish.subjunctive mood