"In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality."
Voice refers to the relationship between the subject and the verb, while mood refers to the speaker's attitude towards the action or event. Both voice and mood can affect syntax and meaning.
Subject-Verb Agreement: The matching of the subject and verb in a sentence in terms of number and person.
Active and Passive Voice: The difference between active and passive voice in a sentence, and when and how to use these voices based on the intended message.
Indicative Mood: This mood is used for stating facts and asking questions that require an answer.
Imperative Mood: This mood is used for giving orders or commands, and provides a way to express requests and recommendations.
Interrogative Mood: This mood is used for forming questions.
Subjunctive Mood: This mood is used to express hypothetical or unreal situations.
Conditional Mood: This mood is used for expressing a conditional or uncertain situation.
Infinitive Phrase: A group of words that includes an infinitive and any modifiers or complements.
Gerund Phrase: A verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun.
Participial Phrase: A phrase that begins with a participle and functions as an adjective.
Appositive Phrase: A noun or noun phrase that renames or explains the noun it follows.
Absolute Phrase: A phrase that modifies the entire sentence.
Prepositional Phrase: A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends in a noun or pronoun.
Parallelism: The use of similar grammatical structures, words, or phrases to convey related ideas.
Chiasmus: A rhetorical device where the second half of a sentence is a reversal of the first half, creating a mirror image effect.
Ellipsis: The omission of words that are normally necessary for grammatical correctness.
Anaphora: A rhetorical device where the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses.
Polysyndeton: A rhetorical device where multiple conjunctions are used in close succession to create emphasis.
Asyndeton: A rhetorical device where conjunctions are intentionally left out, creating a faster pace and sense of urgency.
Rhetorical question: A question asked for effect or to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer.
Active Voice: In active voice, the subject performs the action. For example, "The cat chased the mouse".
Passive Voice: In passive voice, the subject receives the action. For example, "The mouse was chased by the cat".
Reflexive Voice: In reflexive voice, the action is reflected back on the subject. For example, "She hurt herself while playing".
Causative Voice: In causative voice, the subject makes another person do something. For example, "I made him clean the house".
Middle Voice: In middle voice, the subject is both the doer and receiver of the action. For example, "The cake bakes in the oven".
Indicative Mood: In indicative mood, the sentence makes a statement or asks a question. For example, "He is reading a book" or "Are you feeling better?".
Imperative Mood: In imperative mood, the sentence gives a command, request or suggestion. For example, "Shut the door" or "Let's go for a walk".
Subjunctive Mood: In subjunctive mood, the sentence expresses a hypothetical, doubtful or wishful condition. For example, "If I were you, I would take the job" or "I suggest that he be promoted".
Conditional Mood: In conditional mood, the sentence expresses a condition and its consequence. For example, "If it rains, we will stay home" or "She would have come if she had known".
Interrogative Mood: In interrogative mood, the sentence asks a question. For example, "What is your name?" or "Can you help me?".
Exclamatory Mood: In exclamatory mood, the sentence expresses strong emotion or surprise. For example, "How beautiful the sunset is!" or "What a wonderful surprise!".
"It is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying."
"The term is also used more broadly to describe the syntactic expression of modality – that is, the use of verb phrases that do not involve inflection of the verb itself."
"Mood is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect."
"The same word patterns are used for expressing more than one of these meanings at the same time in many languages, including English and most other modern Indo-European languages."
"Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential."
"Infinitives, gerunds, and participles, which are non-finite forms of the verb, are not considered to be examples of moods."
"Some Uralic Samoyedic languages have more than ten moods; Nenets has as many as sixteen."
"The original Indo-European inventory of moods consisted of indicative, subjunctive, optative, and imperative."
"Not every Indo-European language has all of these moods, but the most conservative ones such as Avestan, Ancient Greek, and Vedic Sanskrit have them all."
"English has indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods; other moods, such as the conditional, do not appear as morphologically distinct forms."
"Not all the moods listed below are clearly conceptually distinct."
"Individual terminology varies from language to language."
"The coverage of, for example, the 'conditional' mood in one language may largely overlap with that of the 'hypothetical' or 'potential' mood in another."
"Even when two different moods exist in the same language, their respective usages may blur."
"The usage of the indicative, subjunctive, and jussive moods in Classical Arabic is almost completely controlled by syntactic context."
"The only possible alternation in the same context is between indicative and jussive following the negative particle lā."
"(See tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.)"
"Mood is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect."
"Mood is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying."