"indicative mood" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when making a statement or giving factual information about a certain situation. For example: "The indicative mood is used when making a statement or giving factual information about a certain situation."
Verbs with imperative endings belonged to the imperative mood (used for commands)—e.g., *H1s-dhí 'be (singular),' *H1és-tu 'let him be.' Verbs with primary endings were marked as non-past (present or future) in tense and indicative in mood e.g., *H1és-ti 'he is.' (Indicative mood signifies objective statements and questions).
This should be an ordinary past tense, indicative mood, as required by sequence-of-tense rules; the original question was "Are you interested?" There is no contrary-to-fact or hypothetical sense requiring the subjunctive.
In Sections A-F, a knowledge-based analysis of epistemic possibilities (possibilities that sentences of the form "It is possible that P," where the embedded P is in the indicative mood, typically express) is presented and defended after some rival proposals (notably those of Hacking and Teller) are discussed and argued against.
Compare English "If John is home now (he is eating lunch)" with the verb is in the indicative mood, discussing a matter of fact, with "If John were home now (he would be eating lunch)" with the verb were in the subjunctive mood, describing an unreal situation.
The cognitive function is fulfilled characteristically by 3rd-person nonmodal utterances (i.e., utterances in the indicative mood, making no use of modal verbs); the expressive function by 1st-person utterances in the subjunctive or optative mood; and the conative function by 2nd-person utterances in the imperative.
This orientation also brings everything under the rule of the indicative mood of the declarative sentence.
In the Categories and De Interpretatione, Aristotle partitions indicative-mood declarative sentences into affirmation and negation/denial (apophasis from apophanein "deny, say no"), which respectively affirm or deny something about something (De Int. 17a25).
'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.
Indicative of the mood was Dimitris Dimopoulos, the owner of the Mihanogorgeion cafe opposite the port.
Indicative of the mood ahead of Friday's ballot, more than 1,500 police threw a security cordon around central Athens as black-clad youths chanted "traitors" at lawmakers.
