Sentence examples for indicative grammatical mood from inspiring English sources

'You'll be more punctual in the future' is in the indicative grammatical mood, but as we have seen, that fact does not determine its force.

This may be taken either as the claim that performative sentences, even those in the indicative grammatical mood, lack truth value; or instead as the claim that utterances of performative sentences, even when such sentences have truth value, are not assertions.

So understood, we might go on to ask how speakers indicate the force of their speech acts given that grammatical mood and content cannot be relied on alone to do so.

But let's not give up on that elusive grammatical mood.

The imperative is a special grammatical mood for commands, instructions and requests, and if you use an exclamation point, then the thought becomes a shout.

6. König and Seimund (2007) provide an extensive cross-linguistic study of the interaction of illocutionary force with grammatical mood.

Accordingly in this entry we will consider the relations among speech acts and: semantic content, grammatical mood, speaker-meaning, logically perfect languages, perlocutions, performatives, presuppositions, and implicature.

On the other hand it is a plausible hypothesis that grammatical mood is one of the devices we use, together with contextual clues, intonation and the like to indicate the force with which we are expressing a content.

Czech verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional.

However, in the last two decades linguistic semantics has developed formal representations of contents for the two other major grammatical moods besides the indicative, namely the interrogative and the imperative.

The same may be said of other grammatical moods.