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UK
/dɪklˈæɹətˌɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
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relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
indicative mood
NOUN
- a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
How To Use declarative In A Sentence
- Known usually for somewhat opaque public statements, he ended his comment on the incident with a simple declarative: ‘Let the kids play.’
- The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.
- The reverse case, with an imperative followed by a declarative, is also easy to illustrate, because of this construction.
- With a declarative force, Garrett Hongo makes a call to witness, a call to public attention and testimony.
- I am going to try to be careful with regard to these declarative judgments.
- There is a semantic sentence's opposite of declarative mood vs. subjunctive mood.
- Just as I was getting desperate for any simple declarative sentence to break the ice, he spoke. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
- Note again the terseness, the declarative and documentary force of Lee's voice.
- She combines confessional prose with cultural commentary, narrative with argument, plain declarative sentences with lovely lyrical passages.
- Sometimes they must fight to defend themselves or to keep possession of the ring, but mostly the trilogy is an unfolding, a quest, a journey, told in an elevated, archaic, romantic prose style that tests our capacity for the declarative voice. 11.03
