Definition
Declarative mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the proposition expressed by a speaker’s utterance is offered as an unqualified statement of fact.
Discussion
The term indicative is used in a narrow sense as a synonym of declarative. In its broad usage, indicative is approximately equivalent in meaning to realis.
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