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Indicative moods is for real situations.
Subjunctive mood, amongst other things, is for hypothetical situations.
Imperative mood is for commands and orders

What's the difference between the subjuctive and the conditional moods?

2006-11-04 00:52:07 · 2 answers · asked by Kavliaris 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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Very few languages, if any, make a grammatical distinction between "conditional" and "subjunctive". In every language I have ever studied which marks conditional differently than indicative on the verb, conditional ("If you X, then I Y") is marked by the subjunctive forms of the verb. Conditional is a subset of the situations in which you use subjunctive. Different grammatical traditions might call the subjunctive forms "conditional" or "subjunctive" or "irrealis".

2006-11-04 01:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0 0

Both consider in a way hypothetical situations. When you establish the condition - if, when, in case of... you are adding a condition to a statement, when you consider the cause, the consequence, in an hypothetical way, you use would, might, which indicates the degree of possibility of that happen in the situation established before.
if you paid more attention to the meaning of what people say, you might have noticed this relation before.
If you hadn't sent your questions to yahoo, you would still be in doubt.
Now, in case you state a cause and consequence you believe it is real, you state like this:
if you try to think about what people want to say, you will understand grammar better.
good luck

2006-11-04 00:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by eliana s 3 · 0 0

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