modality vs interrogative mood

interrogative mood vs modality

modality and interrogative mood both are nouns.

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

As nouns, interrogative mood is a hyponym of modality; that is, interrogative 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
interrogative mood: some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood

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

modality (noun)	interrogative mood (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
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 interrogative mood

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