Grammatical moods Grammatical moods Some languages distinguish between alethic moods and non-alethic moods. Alethic moods indicate logical possibility, impossibility or necessity, whereas different moods are used to indicate other types of possibility/necessity. In such a language, "A circle can't be square", "can't be" would be expressed by an alethic mood, whereas for "He can't be that wealthy", "can't be" would be expressed by a non-alethic mood. As we can see, this is not a distinction drawn in English grammar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alethic moods"
The assumptive mood, is a grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the statement is assumed to be true, because it usually is, although there may not be any specific evidence that it is true in this particular case. An English example (even though assumptive mood is not specially marked in English), would be "That must be my mother." ...more on Wikipedia about "Assumptive mood"
The cohortative mood (also known as Intentional; "cohortative subjunctive" is also synonymous with "hortatory subjunctive") is a grammatical mood, used to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose or consequence. It is similar to the jussive mood, with the notable exception that the cohortative appears only in first person, whereas the jussive appears in second or third. Cohoratives are found in several languages, including Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew. In English they are expressed by such verbal auxiliaries as "let" and "should", yet this is misleading, as it implies a request for confirmation not always intended in the original text. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cohortative mood"
Commissive moods are grammatical moods that indicate promises or threats. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commissive moods"
The conditional mood (sometimes described as the conditional tense) is a verb form in many languages, in which a verb root is modified to form verb tenses, moods, or aspects expressing degrees of certainty or uncertainty and hypothesis about past, present, or future. However, the English language is structured radically differently from many languages in that verbs do not conjugate in the same way, and it therefore becomes impossible to identify a conjugated verb form that may be identified as conditional. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conditional mood"
Deductive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the truth of the statement was deduced from other information, rather than being directly known. In English, deductive mood is often indicated by the word must, which is also used for many other purposes. By contrast, some other languages have special words or verb affixes to indicate deductive mood specificially. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deductive mood"
Deliberative mood is a grammatical mood that asks whether something should be done, e.g. Should we go to the market? ...more on Wikipedia about "Deliberative mood"
A category of grammatical moods that includes the subcategories of directive moods, commissive moods, and volitive moods. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deontic moods"
Dubitative mood is a grammatical mood found in some languages, that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or uncertain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dubitative mood"
Epistemic moods are a class of grammatical moods that indicate the epistemic probability of an uterrance being true. ...more on Wikipedia about "Epistemic mood"
The generic mood, in linguistics, is a mood used to make generalized comments about a class of thing. In English, generic verbs are not morphologically distinct from indicative. In most cases, generic statements can only be recognized by context and linguistic experience. ...more on Wikipedia about "Generic mood"
In linguistics, many grammars have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relationship of a verb with reality and intent. Many languages express distinctions of mood through morphology, by changing ( inflecting) the form of the verb. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grammatical mood"
Hypothetical mood is a grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been. For instance, in English, "You know you shouldn't play with knives! You could have hurt someone!" ...more on Wikipedia about "Hypothetical mood"
A form of the imperative mood, found in some languages, the Immediate imperative mood indicates commands that should be implemented immediately. In these languages, the ordinary imperative mood does not have the same sense of immediacy, e.g. Pass me the salt right now!, v.s. Go to school tomorrow! ...more on Wikipedia about "Immediate imperative mood"
Some languages distinguish between the optative mood and an imprecative mood. In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune upon others, whereas the optative mood is used for wishes in general. In such a language, "May he lose the race" is in imprecative mood, whereas "May I win the race" would be in optative mood. An example of such a language is Turkish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imprecative mood"
In linguistics and grammar, the interrogative mood is a grammatical mood used for asking questions. Its occurrence is rare. For most languages, there is no special question-asking mood. Many languages employ one of the following syntax methods to change an ordinary sentence (declarative statement) into a question: ...more on Wikipedia about "Interrogative mood"
Interrogatives are words used in asking questions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interrogatives"
Irrealis moods are the set of grammatical moods that indicate that something is not actually the case. Simply put, they are any verb or sentence moods that are not realis moods. They may be part of expressions of necessity, possibility, requirement, wish or desire, fear, or as part of counterfactual reasonings, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irrealis moods"
The jussive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates commands, permission or agreement with a request. It is similar to the cohortative mood. In some languages, the two are distinguished in that cohortative occurs in the first person and the jussive in the second or third. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jussive mood"
The optative mood is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. It is similar to the cohortative mood. ...more on Wikipedia about "Optative mood"
The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permited, e.g. You may come inside. ...more on Wikipedia about "Permissive mood"
Precative mood is a grammatical mood which signifies requests, e.g. "Could you pass me the salt?" ...more on Wikipedia about "Precative mood"
The Prohibitive mood is a grammatical mood, found in some languages, that indicates that the action of the verb is not permitted, e.g. You can't come in! ...more on Wikipedia about "Prohibitive mood"
Realis moods are a category of grammatical moods which indicate that something is actually the case. The most common realis mood is the indicative mood or the declarative mood. ...more on Wikipedia about "Realis moods"
Sensory evidental mood is a grammatical mood, or group of moods, found in some languages, that indicates the utterance is based on what the speaker has seen/heard with their own eyes/ears. In some languages having such moods, there are multiple sensory evidental moods, distinguished from one another based on what sense this sensory experience was from, e.g. sight v.s. hearing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sensory evidental mood" There's a bit of http://www.shortopedia.com in all of us. shortopedia
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