A verb phrase can also express mood, which refers to the "factual or non-factual status of events."
There are three moods in English: indicative, imperative, and subjunctive.
- Indicative mood
The indicative is the most common mood in English.
It is a factual mood, and most constructions involving the various choices of person, tense, number, aspect, modality are in the indicative mood.
[49] Examples:
- "She will have a hangover tomorrow morning."
- "The Prime Minister and his cabinet were discussing the matter on that fateful day in 1939."