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 Greek Mood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In general, mood is the feature of the verb that presents the verbal action or state with reference to its actuality or potentiality.
The indicative is routinely used to present an assertion as a non-contingent (or unqualified) statement.
The imperative mood is the mood of intention.
www.bcbsr.com /greek/gmood.html   (2010 words)

  
 German Grammar: Summar of German Verb Tenses, Voices & Moods - Grammatik der deutschen Sprache: Verben
The indicative mood, active voice verb tenses are the ones you will learn first and that are used most frequently in German.
While the indicative mood relates fact, the subjunctive mood conveys possibility, states an unreal condition, or expresses a wish, and it is also used for indirect speech.
As with the active voice of the subjunctive mood, in the passive voice the future tense subjunctive may substitute for the present tense subjunctive, and the future perfect tense may substitute for the past subjunctive.
www.vistawide.com /german/grammar/german_verb_tenses_summary.htm   (828 words)

  
 Using Verb Moods
The indicative mood is the most common and is used to express facts and opinions or to make inquiries.
Similarly, in the sentence "Heaven forbid", the verb forbid is in the subjunctive mood.
The subjunctive mood is used in dependent clauses to express unreal conditions and in dependent clauses following verbs of wishing or requesting.
www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/moods.html   (476 words)

  
 Lesson 24
The verbs we have studied so far have all been indicative in mood.
The subjunctive mood indicates action that is possible or potential.
We have learned verbs of the indicative mood and we are now learning verbs of the subjunctive mood (the other two moods listed above will be learned later, but are given here for purposes of comparison).
www.theology.edu /greek/gk24.htm   (356 words)

  
 indicative mood - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about indicative mood
In grammar, the mood of the verb in a sentence that expresses an opinion, states a fact, or ‘indicates’ that something has happened, is happening, or will happen.
In English, this is the mood of the vast majority of sentences, but where the verbs express doubt or possibility (for example may and might), they are said to be in the subjunctive mood.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /indicative+mood   (123 words)

  
 subjunctive vs indicative
It is possible that the mood switches from indicative in the first, subjunctive in the second and indicative in the third.
It is understood that the action is unreal, non-experienced or in the future; hence, the connection between the imperative and subjunctive (all command form (imperative) conjugations are identical to the subjunctive except for tú and vosotros positive commands).
Indicative Clause is in the past or conditional tense WITH a Dependent Clause that occurs in the relative past from it: use the Pluperfect Subjunctive.
home.mctc.mnscu.edu /~witwerda/grammar/subjunctive_vs_indicative.htm   (1580 words)

  
 El concepto del subjuntico
The mood indicates the attitude of the speaker toward the action.
Both the indicative and the subjunctive may occur in a dependent clause introduced by que.
The choice between the indicative and subjunctive depends on what is expressed by the verb in the main clause.
people.uncw.edu /irvine/guides/subjuntivo.htm   (220 words)

  
 Mood (L322)
Mood is assigned the category 'C' (for complementizer), though I have been moving towards 'M' to reflect this reality.
The declarative mood is the default in English (and almost certainly in all natural languages).
There is a closely related mood, the name for which I do not know--we could call it the regardless mood until the official name is found.
www.sfu.ca /person/dearmond/322/322.mood.htm   (1848 words)

  
 Invitational Mood
By contrast, George Kelly (1964/1969), in his personal construct psychology, suggested that language might be used in a hypothetical manner.
The invitational mood is the idea that how we talk about things is tied to particular constructions of the world.
The invitational mood encourages people to accept responsibility for their constructions and grants them the permission to consider alternative constructions (McWilliams, 1996).
www.pcp-net.org /encyclopaedia/invit-mood.html   (955 words)

  
 The Indicative & Imperative Moods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the following examples, the imperative mood is underlined, while the indicative is in italics.
In this passage, no fewer than five separate imperatives are tied to two wonderful indicatives: our confidence to enter the holy place by the new way, and our great high priest.
On the contrary, we must act in the knowledge of the indicatives before we actually sense or experience the truth.
www.xenos.org /essays/indic.htm   (1051 words)

  
 The Present Indicative in Matthew 19:9 | Successful Stepfamilies
With regard to Matthew 19:9, the appeal to the present indicative to establish that moichatai must necessarily refer to continuity is not cogent based as it is upon imprecise understanding of Greek mood distinctions.
Observing that in the present indicative no clear distinction can be drawn between ongoing action and so-called "punctiliar" action as is possible in the imperfect and aorist indicative, Robertson notes, "it is not wise therefore to define the pres.
The actual use of the present indicative by Matthew, then, corroborates Robertson's contention that "action in progress" is not adequate to describe that linguistic phenomenon and that the context must decide in each instance.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In grammar, the subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a verb mood that exists in many languages.
It is formed from the stem of the preterite (imperfect) form of the verb and appending the appropriate Konjunktiv I ending as appropriate, although in most regular verbs the final 'e' in the stem is dropped.
Note that there are authors who regard the conditional of Portuguese as a past tense of the indicative mood, rather than as a separate mood; some even call it futuro do pretérito ("future in the past"), especially in Brazil.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=subjunctive_mood   (4182 words)

  
 Course II, Lesson 9
The present active and middle/passive forms of the subjunctive look exactly like their counterparts in the indicative mood except that the connecting vowel has been lengthened.
characteristic of 1st aorist indicatives, having secondary personal endings, and perhaps having an augment, none of which are found in aorist subjunctives.
Only in the indicative mood is absolute time indicated by tense.
www.ntgreek.net /lesson29.htm   (2216 words)

  
 ta1: intro to tense, aspect, mood, voice
Mood is a grammatical category distinguishing verb tenses.
All of these moods, except the imperative, may be conjugated in different tenses.
The indicative mood is the most common and is used to relate facts and objective statements.
www.laits.utexas.edu /tex/gr/ta1.html   (654 words)

  
 Indicative - Verbal-Words-2a
The INDICATIVE MOOD is used when an event is seen as actually occurring in a temporal (time) setting (past, present, or future), it is put in the Indicative Mood.
Time is not being contemplated by the Greek verb unless the verb is in the indicative mood.
The tense of the verb that is in the indicative determines which setting the word is placed in by the author.
www.dabar.org /Tools/gkVerbalmood1indic.html   (426 words)

  
 Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Mood is the form a verb takes to show the manner in which it is to be regarded (e.g.
The imperative mood is used for commands or requests.
The vast majority of sentences are in the indicative mood.
www.grammar-monster.com /grammarlessons/glossary/cii.htm   (1153 words)

  
 English Tips-Mood-Terry Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mood is a grammatical concept in which a speaker or writer can express that a sentence is factual, a command, a formal request, a necessity, a wish or a false or improbable condition.
The imperative mood expresses a request or a command.
The subjunctive mood is used to make formal requests, show a sense of necessity, make wishes or make false or improbable conditions.
www.andeanwinds.com /andeanwinds/articles_terry_bates/mood_eng.htm   (325 words)

  
 § 61. subjunctive. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
English has had a subjunctive mood since Old English times, but most of the functions of the old subjunctive have been taken over by auxiliary verbs like may and should, and the subjunctive survives only in very limited situations.
In fact, over the last 200 years even well-respected writers have tended to use the indicative was where the traditional rule would require the subjunctive were.
In spoken English, there is a growing tendency to use would have in place of the subjunctive had in contrary-to-fact clauses, such as If she would have (instead of if she had) only listened to me, this would never have happened.
www.bartleby.com /64/C001/061.html   (1101 words)

  
 C. Mood
In Modern English, "Mood" describes the manner in which the action or state expressed by a verb is viewed with respect to its factuality, possibility, or command.
Mood is not affected if it is unlikely Harry actually spends all of his money on comic books; all that matters is that the verb usage is in the form of an assertion of fact.
The Subjunctive Mood is used chiefly to express the speaker’s attitude about the likelihood or factuality of a given situation.
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 CHAPTERS XII AND XIII
Each of these moods may have "continuous" or "punctual" aspect, depending on which stem is used.
Keep in mind that it is only in the indicative that the aorist represents action in the past time (or "tense").
Only in the indicative mood is present "tense" or time actually indicated.
www.vroma.org /~abarker/tschapthirteen.html   (1103 words)

  
 CONDITIONS
The difference is exactly the difference in the two moods: The Indicative Condition makes a statement about fact; the Subjunctive Condition makes a statement about potential.
The Indicative Mood makes statements and, so, indicative conditions makes factual or logical statements about events in terms of what precedes or conditions a particular conclusion.
Translation of indicative conditions into English is almost always easy and direct; transation of factual or logical conditions into Latin requires that you think about the precise timing of the events, since it is often the case that the condition must precede the conclusion.
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/grammar/conditions_in_latin.htm   (804 words)

  
 Monzo - FrathWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Imperfect Indicative: ià, iàs, ià, iàmo, iàz, iàn
The subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a grammatical mood of the verb that expresses wishes, commands (in subordinate clauses), emotion, possibility, judgment, necessity and statements that are contrary to fact.
Like the indicative mood compound tenses, these are a combination of a verb and a participle, though these are in the subjunctive.
wiki.frath.net /Monzo   (2304 words)

  
 English Tips-The Indicative Mood-Terry Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The majority of the statements that are made in English are in the indicative mood.
With the potential form of the indicative mood, we can express permission, possiblility, ability, necessity, or obligation.
We sometimes see or hear an emphatic form of the indicative mood that gives emphasis to the verb.
www.andeanwinds.com /andeanwinds/articles_terry_bates/indicative_mood_eng.htm   (378 words)

  
 Indo-European Grammar: Mood
Indicative mood forms give information that the speaker views as true (factual), while with imperatives speakers tell hearers what they want to have accomplished (give commands).
In languages that have both inflectional optatives and subjunctives, optatives express a wish ('Long live the king!'), while statements that the speaker views as non-factual or dependent on some condition are marked by the subjunctive mood ('If I were you,...' as opposed to indicative 'I was you in the play about your life').
In many languages a range of information that the speaker does not intend to state as a fact or intend as an action to be carried out may be marked as subjunctive or optative.
www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-ling/mood.html   (359 words)

  
 Cats Family - Grammar - English - Mood
The indicative mood is used to make statements and to ask questions.
The imperative mood is used to express a comand or a request.
The imperative mood is found only in the present tense, second person.
www.cats-family.com /grammar/english/english/Moods.shtml   (119 words)

  
 Greek Grammar: The Present Active
English uses of the indicative mood are apparent in such phrases as "The house is moving," "I am speaking," and "We are happy" (note that each phrase states some actual event or state).
With W-verbs, a standard set of endings is used to denote the indicative mood in the present tense and active voice, depending on the verb's 'person' (1st, 2nd, or 3rd):
The Imperative Mood: Greek's imperative mood is used to issue a command, precisely in the same manner as the English imperative ("Cook the dinner," "Show me the car," etc).
www.monachos.net /greek/3_pres_ind_imp.shtml   (179 words)

  
 Verbs and Verbals
Mood in verbs refers to one of three attitudes that a writer or speaker has to what is being written or spoken.
The subjunctive is not as important a mood in English as it is in other languages, like French and Spanish, which happen to be more subtle and discriminating in hypothetical, doubtful, or wishful expressions.
The past tense of the subjunctive has the same forms as the indicative except (unfortunately) for the verb to be, which uses were regardless of the number of the subject.
grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/verbs.htm   (3203 words)

  
 Dictionary :: Indicative mood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
the mood of a verb used in ordinary factual or objective statements
That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved.
indicative mood n : a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact [syn: indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood]
www.dictionary.cx /topic/Indicative_mood.html   (222 words)

  
 Indicative Mood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The indicative mood expresses a fact or a factual condition.
Verbs in the indicative mood take ordinary tense or agreement endings.
Most questions, as well as most statements, are in the indicative mood.
mit.imoat.net /handbook/m-indica.htm   (43 words)

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