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2. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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   English has indicative, imperative, conditional, and subjunctive moods. Not all the moods listed below are clearly conceptually distinct. Individual terminology varies from language to language, and the coverage of, for example, the "conditional" mood in one language may largely overlap with that of the "hypothetical" or "potential" mood in ...

3. Category:Grammatical moods - Wikipedia

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4. Mood (literature) - Wikipedia

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   Tone and mood are not the same. The tone of a piece of literature is the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject, rather than what the reader feels, as in mood. Mood is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and

5. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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   For example, in English the word "walk" would be used in different ways for the different combinations of TAM: Tense: He walked (past), He walks (present), He will walk (future). Aspect: He walked (unitary), He was walking (continuous), He used to walk (habitual). Mood: I can walk (possibility), Walk faster! (necessity).

6. Modality (semantics) - Wikipedia

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   If these verbal markers of modality are obligatory in a language, they are called mood markers. Well-known examples of moods in some European languages are referred to as subjunctive, conditional, and indicative as illustrated below with examples from French, all three with the verb avoir 'to have'.

7. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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   The subjunctive mood, sometimes called conjunctive mood, has several uses in dependent clauses. Examples include discussing hypothetical or unlikely events, expressing opinions or emotions, or making polite requests (the exact scope is language-specific). A subjunctive mood exists in English, but it often is not obligatory.

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9. Gnomic aspect - Wikipedia

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   taiyou-wa sun- TOP higashi-kara east-from nobo-ru rise- IPFV taiyou-wa higashi-kara nobo-ru sun-TOP east-from rise-IPFV "the sun rises in the east" whereas the ga (subject) particle would force an episodic reading. English English has no means of morphologically distinguishing a gnomic aspect; however, a generic reference is generally understood to convey an equivalent meaning. Use of the ...