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indicative mood vs mode

mode vs indicative mood

indicative mood and mode both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
indicative mood Yes No No No
mode Yes No No No
As nouns, mode is a hypernym of indicative mood; that is, mode 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
  • mode: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Other hypernyms of indicative mood include modality, mood.
indicative mood (noun) mode (noun)
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact how something is done or how it happens
the most frequent value of a random variable
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
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
a particular functioning condition or arrangement
Difference between indicative mood and mode

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