Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Actually, should be "Passive voice", not "Passive mood". Mood refers to the (ir)reality of a situation, like subjunctive mood ("If I were a rich man"), imperative mood ("Get rich quick!") and indicative mood ("Bill G. is a very rich man."). In other words, what is the speaker's attitude (mood) toward the idea being expressed (desire, command, belief)? Redirect Grammatical Mood This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.