mode vs declarative mood

declarative mood vs mode

mode and declarative mood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mode	Yes	No	No	No
declarative mood	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

mode (noun)	declarative mood (noun)
how something is done or how it happens	a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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 mode and declarative mood

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