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indicative mood vs modality

modality vs indicative mood

indicative mood and modality both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
indicative mood Yes No No No
modality Yes No No No
As nouns, modality is a hypernym of indicative mood; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than indicative mood:
  • indicative mood: 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 indicative mood include mode, mood.
indicative mood (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
Difference between indicative mood and modality

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