modality vs imperative mood

imperative mood vs modality

modality and imperative mood both are nouns.

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

As nouns, imperative mood is a hyponym of modality; that is, imperative mood 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 mood: 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 form, jussive mood, interrogative, interrogative mood.

modality (noun)	imperative mood (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 mood

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