declarative sentence
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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
As a journalism major, I favored the frankness and simplicity of the declarative sentence, which is how we built newspaper stories that plainly said what they meant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2016
When a parenthesis forms the end of a declarative sentence the period is placed outside the parenthesis, as in the preceding example.
From Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
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