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单词 declarative sentence
释义
declarative sentence
noun[C]
languagespecialized
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/dɪˌklær.ə.tɪv ˈsen.təns/us
/dɪˌkler.ə.t̬ɪv ˈsen.təns/
asentencethat makes astatementorstatesafact
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Grammar

Clause types
There are four basic types of main clause: declaratives (statements), interrogatives (questions), imperatives (orders/instructions) and exclamatives (used for exclamations).…
Declarative clauses
Declarative clauses most commonly function as statements. The usual word order is subject (s) + verb (v) + x. Declaratives can be affirmative or negative. They make statements about how things are and how they are not.…
Interrogative clauses
Interrogative clauses most commonly function as questions. The usual word order is (wh-word) + auxiliary/modal verb (aux/m) + subject + verb + x:…
Imperative clauses
Imperative clauses most commonly function as commands, instructions or orders. The usual word order is verb + x. We do not usually include the subject in an imperative clause. We use the base form of the verb:…
Exclamative clauses
Exclamative clauses usually have one of the following word orders:…
(Definition ofdeclarative sentencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • A proposition in argument is a statement—a declarative sentence—concerning the truth or expediency of which there may be two opinions.
  • The issues when stated in declarative sentences are the fundamental reasons why the affirmative believes its proposition should be believed.
  • The proper sentence structure for the bulk of the short story is the simple straightforward declarative sentence, rather loose, of medium length, tending to short at times to avoid monotony and give vividness.
  • The topic must be given some definite expression in a declarative sentence before any real argument is possible.

declarative sentence| American Dictionary

declarative sentence
noun[C]
us/dɪˈklær·ət̬·ɪv ˈsen·təns/
grammar
a sentence that makes astatementorstatesafact
(Definition ofdeclarative sentencefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeclarative sentence

declarative sentence
The first two examples are not declarative sentences and therefore are not (or do not make) statements.
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Hemingway omits internal punctuation (colons, semicolons, dashes, parentheses) in favor of short declarative sentences, which are meant to build, as events build, to create a sense of the whole.
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Now more generally of any verb whose form is such that it can stand in a simpledeclarativesentence.
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Rule-based theories of object wh-question acquisition make the additional assumption that children are applying the following grammatical movement rules to transform an underlyingdeclarativesentenceinto a wh-question.
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In both cases, the question both begins and ends at higher pitches than does adeclarativesentence.
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Therefore, a judgment is adeclarativesentence, which is a categorical proposition.
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Each point should be a shortdeclarativesentence.
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This word order is always kept, regardless of adeclarativesentenceor an interrogative sentence.
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In logic adeclarativesentenceis considered to be a sentence that can be used to communicate truth.
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Two meaningfuldeclarativesentence-tokens express the same proposition if and only if they mean the same thing.
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Eh can also be added to the end of adeclarativesentenceto turn it into a question.
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Only data from well-formed declarative sentences are discussed.
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Compare the percentages of notcontraction out of all possible contractions that took place in declarative sentences for the corpus specified.
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Thus, for declarative sentences, internal and external causes have probably both contributed to the cur rent situation.
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And that is astonishing, because it's one thing to be able to write a gooddeclarativesentence; it's another thing to catch the temperature of the narrator, the narrator's feeling.
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