modality vs imperative form

imperative form vs modality

modality and imperative form both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modality	Yes	No	No	No
imperative form	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, imperative form is a hyponym of modality; that is, imperative form 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
imperative form: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

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

modality (noun)	imperative form (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
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 modality and imperative form

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