declarative sentence

Cultural  

1. In grammar, the kind of sentence that makes a statement or “declares” something: “He eats yogurt.”

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Example Sentences

In Yautja, the structure of a declarative sentence — one that makes a statement, provides a fact or offers an explanation — is the reverse of those in English.

From Los Angeles Times

After a tour of her laboratory and MRI scanner, dialogue about the frontal cortex and the mysteries of synapses, she offered a simple declarative sentence: “We are our brains.”

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“You can’t save what you don’t love,” reads the declarative sentence that opens the novel.

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To which Leda replies, blending frankness, sorrow and fury as only Colman brilliantly can, with a simple declarative sentence:

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“You know, God figured out how to give the rules to all mankind in 10 declarative sentences,” Gates said this week.

From New York Times