Wait, verbs have moods? 🤔
Yes! Just like you, verbs have an attitude.
Tense tells you when something happens (Past, Present, Future).
Mood tells you how the speaker feels about it (Is it a fact? A command? A wish? A wild guess?).
Mood = The "Vibe" of the Sentence ✨
Meet the Personalities
Click a mood on the left to see how it behaves.
Mood Analytics 📊
We analyzed the "Vibe Profile" of each mood based on four metrics: Certainty (How real is it?), Force (How pushy is it?), Politeness (How nice is it?), and Imagination (How abstract is it?).
Realis vs. Irrealis
Linguists group moods into two big buckets.
Realis: Things that are actually happening (Indicative).
Irrealis: Things that aren't happening yet, or might never happen (Subjunctive, Imperative, Conditional).
The Subjunctive Dip
Notice on the chart how the Subjunctive scores highest in "Imagination" but lowest in "Certainty". It is the mood of dreams and doubts.
🧪 The Sentence Lab
Take a neutral "base sentence" and inject it with different moods to see how the meaning (and grammar) shifts.
"You / To Eat / The Pizza"
Select a mood above! 👆
See how the verb form changes?
The "If" Machine (Conditionals) 🏗️
English doesn't have a single "Conditional Mood" ending. Instead, we use formulas. Conditionals describe a result that depends on a condition.
To see the formula...
...and an example!