mode vs interrogative mood

interrogative mood vs mode

mode and interrogative mood both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of mode 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.

mode (noun)	interrogative mood (noun)
how something is done or how it happens	some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
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 interrogative mood

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