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 <h3>Mood</h3>
-&nbsp;Grammatical mood is very
+Grammatical mood is very
 important in Antarctican. It is conflated with evidentiality, but totally separated from mirativity. It is formed by prefixes on the verb.
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 <h4>Presumptive Mood</h4>
-This is used to talk about purely hypothetical events / situations. One use of it is where English would begin a sentence with "Suppose that ...".
+This is used to talk about hypothetical and counterfactual events, that do not / have not / will not ever take place in the speaker's view. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_mood or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealis_mood#Presumptive. It is formed by prefixing du- to the verb e.g.
-It is formed by prefixing du- to the verb e.g.
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