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  2. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...

  3. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    There are indicative mood forms for, in addition to the future-as-viewed-from-the-past usage of the conditional mood form, the following combinations: future; an imperfective past tense–aspect combination whose form can also be used in contrary-to-fact "if" clauses with present reference; a perfective past tense–aspect combination whose ...

  4. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    In French, while the standard language requires the indicative in the dependent clause, using the conditional mood in both clauses is frequently used by some speakers: Si j ' aurais su, je ne serais pas venu ("If would have known, I wouldn't have come") instead of Si j ' avais su, je ne serais pas venu ("If I had known, I wouldn't have come ...

  5. English markers of habitual aspect - Wikipedia

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    [Used to + infinitive] expresses the lexical verb’s habitual aspect in the past tense, and is in the indicative mood and active voice. In informal spoken English questions or negative statements, it is treated like neither a modal nor an auxiliary verb, but as a past tense of an ordinary verb. (Though informal, especially when the "d" is ...

  6. Realis mood - Wikipedia

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    Although the indicative is generally the main or only realis mood, certain other languages have additional forms which can be categorized as separate realis moods. Arabic and various other Semitic languages have two kinds of energetic moods , which express something which is strongly believed or which the speaker wishes to emphasize.

  7. Simple present - Wikipedia

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    The above refers to the indicative mood of the simple present; for the formation and use of the subjunctive mood, see English subjunctive. (The defective verb beware has no simple present indicative, although it can be used in the subjunctive.) The conjugation of the simple present is given below, using the verb to write as an example.

  8. Counterfactual conditional - Wikipedia

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    These conditionals differ in both form and meaning. The indicative conditional uses the present tense form "owns" and therefore conveys that the speaker is agnostic about whether Sally in fact owns a donkey. The counterfactual example uses the fake tense form "owned" in the "if" clause and the past-inflected modal "would" in the "then" clause ...

  9. English subjunctive - Wikipedia

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    The English subjunctive is realized as a finite but tenseless clause.Subjunctive clauses use a bare or plain verb form, which lacks any inflection.For instance, a subjunctive clause would use the verb form "be" rather than "am/is/are" and "arrive" rather than "arrives", regardless of the person and number of the subject.