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subjunctive mood vs modality

modality vs subjunctive mood

subjunctive mood and modality both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
subjunctive mood Yes No No No
modality Yes No No No
As nouns, modality is a hypernym of subjunctive mood; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than subjunctive mood:
  • subjunctive mood: a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
  • modality: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Other hypernyms of subjunctive mood include mode, mood.
subjunctive mood (noun) modality (noun)
a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
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 subjunctive mood and modality

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