declarative sentence
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“You can’t save what you don’t love,” reads the declarative sentence that opens the novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Statement A declarative sentence that has a truth value, meaning that it must be either true or false.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In his left he holds a hand-painted sign etched with four words, one declarative sentence: “I did not forget.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
The power of his prose was the lean declarative sentence.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2017
A dizzy precipice at the end of every declarative sentence.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
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