Adjective(1) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration(2) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements(3) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simpledeclarative statements
Noun(1) a mood (grammatically unmarked(2) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Adjective(1) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration(2) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements(3) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simpledeclarative statements
Noun(1) a mood (grammatically unmarked(2) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
(1) The declarative gesture of the cigarette, almost stating, in the guise of a crime scene photograph, u2018here is what happenedu2019, proves less complete and less transparent than at first appears.(2) The State of Jefferson web page greets its visitors with this declarative welcome: u2018You are now entering the State of Jefferson.u2019(3) Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative , subject-verb-object sentence.(4) Each time she chants it we encounter the essential use of the simple declarative sentence, the basic seed from which all speech proliferates.(5) But the niceties of narrative structure, pacing and simple declarative English prose aren't her strong point.(6) This is due to the fact that a simple, transitive, declarative clause in Lisu does not distinguish between agent and patient structurally.(7) Says Mr. Asman: u2018CNN, MSNBC, the media generally were not declarative enough in calling a spade a spade.u2019(8) The more configuration done through the browser, the more declarative the software, and thus easier to manage and more flexible.(9) Nothing exceptional here, or in the calm declarative prose in which the other stories are told.(10) Now it is very difficult for actors to lose that intonation because they're so used to not doing that downward declarative intonation, they're much more used to just kind of going up when they finish the sentence.(11) The syntax of English says (for example) that the subject should precede the predicate in a normal declarative : The cat wants to go out rather than * Wants to go out the cat.(12) In my last post on the subject, I admitted that I could accept subject-drop in a noninverted declarative , but not in a noninverted interrogative.(13) Today's television environment is, more than ever, warmly hospitable to simple - and simplistic - declarative statements.(14) The final phrase-structure rule shows that, in contrast to typical declarative English sentences, a verb can be proceeded by its object.(15) I listened very closely for any sort of specific declarative denial.(16) But to the best of my knowledge this is the first time we've heard this about Rice - certainly in so declarative and unambiguous a fashion.
