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imperative mood vs modality

modality vs imperative mood

imperative mood and modality both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
imperative mood Yes No No No
modality Yes No No No
As nouns, modality is a hypernym of imperative mood; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than imperative mood:
  • imperative mood: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
  • modality: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Other hypernyms of imperative mood include mode, mood.
imperative mood (noun) modality (noun)
a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior 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
Difference between imperative mood and modality

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