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Definition of Fact mood
1. Noun. A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact.
Generic synonyms: Modality, Mode, Mood
Derivative terms: Declarative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fact Mood
Literary usage of Fact mood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"When there are only two moods in a language to express statements, a fact-mood
and a thought-mood, as is the case in Latin, French, German, and Old English, ..."
2. Grammar and Thinking: A Study of the Working Conceptions in Syntax by Alfred Dwight Sheffield (1912)
"No consistent scheme of fact-mood and thought- mood, however, is actually carried
out. Here as elsewhere in language, the working of analogy was bound to ..."
3. A Review of English Grammar: For Secondary Schools by Edward Archibald Allen (1909)
"We have seen also that mood has nothing to do with fact. Mood is the tone of
affirmation, the manner in which a verb says something of its subject, ..."
4. The Public School Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and by Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1890)
"Mood The Indicative is the Fact-Mood, used to declare (state categorically) :
scribo, I-write ; scribam, I will write, &c. Such declaration may be 1) ..."
5. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical: By Henry Sweet by Henry Sweet (1900)
"When there are only two moods in a language to express statements, a fact-mood
and a thought-mood, as is the case in Latin, French, German, and Old English, ..."
6. A Grammar of the English Language by Edward Archibald Allen, William John Hawkins (1903)
"We have seen also that mood has nothing to do -with fact. Mood is the tone of
affirmation, the manner in which a verb says something of its subject, ..."
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