modality vs declarative

declarative vs modality

modality and declarative both are nouns.

modality is not an adjective while declarative is an adjective.

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

As nouns, declarative is a hyponym of modality; that is, declarative is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than modality:

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

Other hyponyms of modality include common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood, subjunctive, subjunctive mood, optative, optative mood, imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood, interrogative, interrogative mood.

modality (noun)	declarative (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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

modality (adjective)	declarative (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 modality and declarative

Words related to "declarative"

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