Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Speculative mood

Epistemic grammatical mood From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Speculative mood (abbreviated SPEC) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the utterance is based on speculation of the speaker, and not necessarily known to be the case.[1] For example, "The butler could have been the killer."

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads