Question

What is an indicative mood?

Answer 1

Hint: Mood is the form a verb takes to show how it is to be regarded. The indicative mood is a verb form that makes a statement or asks a question.

Complete answer:
An indicative statement is one that portrays factual information or it is used to give a fixed or stern point of view. In the indicative mood, an indicative statement makes a factual statement or raises a question. Indicative mood is a form of the verb. Most of the verbs that are used in sentences follow the indicative mood itself. A verb's 'mood' is the form it takes to indicate how it should be treated (e.g., as a command, or as a fact or even as an uncertainty).

Since we have already said that in order to make statements or to ask questions we can use this indicative mood, let us see with some examples:
Rejina bakes every Thursday. (In this sentence, ‘bakes’ is in the indicative mood and this sentence forms a statement)
Is Rejina a chef? (Here, ‘is’ is the verb that shows indicative mood, this is a question form)
Also take note that the following sentence is not in the indicative mood;
Bake us a cake, Rejina. (Here ‘bake’ is not indicative but in imperative mood because it is an order, not a simple statement or a query)

Another example for indicative mood would be;
Tarana is washing the dishes. Is Tarana washing the dishes? (Here both ‘is washing’ and ‘is’ in each sentence is in the indicative mood itself)

Note: The indicative mood is used in the majority of sentences. As a result, it can be referred to as the "baseline" mood. In other words, the indicative mood serves as a benchmark to which the increasingly abstract moods (such as the subjunctive, imperative moods) are measured.