Answer:
1. The little girl wished that she would get a pony for Christmas - Subjunctive
2. If I were one of the boys, I would have looked both ways before crossing the road - Conditional
3. If you take your coat with you, you might not get cold - Conditional
4. If I had a car, I would drive across the country to the ocean - Conditional
5. If you add the yeast, your bread should rise in a few hours - Conditional
6. If the alarm sounds, the fire fighters put on their gear and jump on the fire truck - Conditional
Explanation:
<u>The subjunctive mood expresses a wish, a suggestion, even a command. It is used with verbs such as wish, demand, suggest, recommend, insist, and order.</u> Among the sentences provided in the question, only the first one is in the subjunctive mood: 1. The little girl wished that she would get a pony for Christmas.
The other sentences are all in the<u> conditional mood</u>. This mood<u> expresses a fact - real or hypothetical - that depends on a certain condition to happen. The clause in which the condition is stated often begins with the conjunction "if". </u>Let's choose one of the sentence above to take a look:
If I had a car, I would drive across the country to the ocean --> For me to be able to drive across the country, a car would be needed. Only if I met that condition would I get that result.
1- <span>The ancient Chinese board game “Go” is invented long before there was any writing to record its rules. A game from the impossibly distant past has now brought us closer to a moment that once seemed part of an impossibly distant future: a time when machines are cleverer than we are.
<u>Because it's an action that started and finished in the past, this should read </u><u>was</u><u> (Simple Past)</u>
2- </span><span>For years, Go was considered the last redoubt against the march of computers. Machines might win at chess, draughts, Othello, three-dimensional noughts and crosses, Monopoly, bridge, and poker. Go, though, is different.
<u>This continues the same line of mistake as the first paragraph. Because it's referencing something that already happened ("Go was considered...), this should read </u><u>was</u><u> (Simple Past).</u>
The game required intuition, strategising <u>and</u> character reading, along with vast numbers of moves and permutations. According to legend, it was invented by a Chinese emperor to teach his subjects balance and patience: qualities unique to human intelligence.
<u>The conjunction and is used before the last element in a list. In this case, this word should be substituted by a comma because <em>character reading</em> is not the last element on that list.</u>
3- </span><span>This week, though, a computer called Alpha Go <u>defeats</u> the world’s best player of Go. It did so by “ learning” the game, crunching through 30 million positions from recorded matches, reacting and anticipating. It <u>evolves</u> as a player and taught itself.
That single game of Go marks a milestone on the road to the “technological singularity”, the moment when artificial intelligence becomes capable of self-improvement and learns faster than humans can control or understand.</span><span>
<u>These should read defeated ... evolved. This continues the same line of thought on subject-verb agreement. If it's talking about a past event, and the rest of the paragraph sustains that idea, then these verbs should be in Simple Past.</u></span><span>
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The event which shows the monster has gained his humanity by the end of the story is his weeping over Victor Frankenstein's dead body. The man who had created him had denied him the right to enjoy the love of a wife and family, and now it was too late.
