declarative vs modality

modality vs declarative

declarative and modality both are nouns.

declarative is an adjective but modality is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
declarative	Yes	Yes	No	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, modality is a hypernym of declarative; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than declarative:

declarative: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
modality: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Other hypernyms of declarative include mode, mood.

declarative (noun)	modality (noun)
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
	a particular sense
	a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

declarative (adjective)	modality (adjective)
relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

Difference between declarative and modality

Words related to "declarative"

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