Subjunctive mood & conditionals

1. Choose the correct form: “It is important that a scientific hypothesis ____ testable and falsifiable” (be / are).

2. Choose the correct form: “It is essential that the specimen ____ kept at a constant temperature” (be / is).

3. In the sentence “Verify the data before you publish”, what grammatical mood is the verb “Verify”: Imperative, Subjunctive, or Interrogative?

4. Choose the correct form: “If gravity ____ weaker on Earth, athletes could jump much higher” (were / is).

5. Choose the correct form: “The editor demanded that the fabricated quotation ____ removed immediately” (be / was).

6. Choose the correct mandative subjunctive form: “The safety committee recommended that every student ____ goggles in the lab” (wear / wears).

7. Choose the correct inverted conditional: “____ the sensor to fail, the backup alarm would sound immediately” (Were / Was).

8. Choose the correct form: “It is vital that the patient ____ hydrated during recovery” (stay / stays).

9. In the sentence “If the bridge were wider, buses could cross in both directions”, what mood is “were”: Subjunctive or Imperative?

10. In the fixed expression “Suffice it to say, the experiment succeeded”, what mood is “Suffice”: Subjunctive or Interrogative?

11. Choose the correct past counterfactual: “If we ____ measured the mass before heating, we could have calculated the water lost” (had / would have).

12. Choose the correct form: “Take shelter immediately lest the storm ____ you in the open channel” (catch / catches).