grammatical mood

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• Grammatical mood — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical tense — is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.Tense is one of at least five qualities, along with mood, voice, aspect, and person, which verb forms may express.Tenses… …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical aspect — In linguistics, the grammatical aspect of a verb defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. For example, in English the difference between I swim and I am swimming is a difference of aspect.Aspect, as discussed… …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical polarity — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical category — A grammatical category or functional category is a linguistic term encompassing, among other things: *Grammatical aspect *Grammatical case *Grammatical mood *Definiteness *Specificity *Animacy *Evidentiality *Noun class *Grammatical gender… …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical conjugation — Part of the conjugation of the Spanish verb correr, to run , the lexeme is corr . Red represents the speaker, purple the addressee and teal a third person. One person represents the singular number and two, the plural number. Dawn represents the… …   Wikipedia

• Grammatical particle — In linguistics, the term particle is a word lacking a strict definition but has the function of changing the relation of the parts of the sentence to one another, and is therefore called a function word. It does not change its form by adding… …   Wikipedia

• Assumptive mood — 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… …   Wikipedia

• Sensory evidential 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 evidential moods …   Wikipedia

• 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! ee also*… …   Wikipedia