Statistics for Grammatical Moods

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Denoting the mood of a verb that expresses a command or exhortation, as in "come here!"	Imperative	100%
Relating to or denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or possible	Subjunctive	91%
A clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form expressing a condition	Conditional	73%
A mood that signals that the speaker wishes to elicit information concerning the content of his or her utterance from the addressee	Interrogative	73%
A verb form which makes a statement or asks a question	Indicative	55%
Of a form of a verb expressing a command	Jussive	27%
A directive mood that signals the speaker's act of giving permission	Permissive	27%
A linguistic modality that indicates how the world ought to be according to certain norms, expectations, speaker desire, etc.	Deontic	18%
A sub-type of linguistic modality that deals with a speaker's evaluation/judgement of, degree of confidence in, or belief of the knowledge upon which a proposition is based	Epistemic	18%
Modalities which encourage or urge: "Let us"; "You simply must"	Hortative	18%
Of a verb or form of a verb expressing possibility, as English "may" and "might"	Potential	18%
A grammatical mood that signifies requests	Precative	18%