"What Is Mood in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

How is grammatical “mood” different from the literary and conversational uses of the word? This video explains, describing declarative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive, exclamative, and conditional moods. It is designed for high school and college students studying grammar, writing, or linguistics.
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Mood in functional grammar is mood refers to mood types . Moods of sentence intends to express fact ( indicative mood ) , wish ( subjunctive mood ) , command ( imperative mood ) , condition ( conditional mood ) , ask questions ( interrogative mood ). We use mood in sentence is clearly good . Mood affects writing tone of writing change how readers perceive text . Mood and voice in grammar. Mood is about what kind of message speaker is sending, tense about time , voice is about agents and patients , who gets to be subject of verb . Mood definition in linguistic grammatical is grammatical feature of verb , used signally , modality. Thank for your wonderful literary educational channel.

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