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Declarative   Listen
Declarative

noun
1.
A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact.  Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood.
adjective
1.
Relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration.  Synonyms: asserting, declaratory.
2.
Relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements.  Synonym: indicative.



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"Declarative" Quotes from Famous Books



... often that he doth not deny to church officers all power of church government, but only the corrective part of government; that the doctrinal and declarative power is in the ministry; see p. 11, 14. He denieth that he did "advise the Parliament to take church government wholly into their own hands: I never had it in my thoughts (saith he) that the Parliament had power of dispensing the word ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... came. Elizabeth sprang out to meet him, referred him to her coadjutor up stairs, and then waited for his coming down again. But the doctor when he came could tell her nothing; there was no declarative symptom as yet; he knew no more than she did; she must wait. She went back to her sofa ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... discourse, and the different emotions that accompany them, are each expressed with characteristic variations in pitch. Accepting Wundt's summary of the facts, we find that, generally speaking, in the declarative statement and the command, the pitch rises in the first thought-division, to fall in the second; while in the question and the condition, the pitch rises and falls in the first, and then rises again in the second. Doubt, expectation, tension, excitement—all the ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... Oliver manages to look at her politely enough as he speaks but then his eyes go straight back to Nancy and stay there as if they wished to be considered permanent attachments. All Oliver has been able to realize for the last two hours is the mere declarative fact ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... 314. 1. Declarative Sentences upon becoming Indirect change their main clause to the Infinitive with Subject Accusative, while all subordinate ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett



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