declarative
7
6.3
- adjective
- /dɪˈklærətɪv/
- Specialized
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declarativo
- In grammar, a declarative statement provides information rather than asking a question.
- declarative sentence
- declarative knowledge
- declarative statement
That's the last simple declarative sentence out of her mouth.
- That's the last simple declarative sentence out of her mouth.
Examples
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All sentences were declarative, one-clause sentences with length held constant between 5 and 11 words.
Academic text (1991) -
The prompts were selected so that the children would be obligated to produce declarative sentences with a subject and predicate.
Academic text (2015) -
This is a question, but it comes in the declarative form, too.
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The text is a series of short declarative sentences like "I say your name" and "I run from you."
Academic text (1999) -
I am my world, with those blank, declarative statements in the middle of the poem.
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For example, this model can include procedural and declarative elements for both data and knowledge representations.
Academic text (1992) -
In this fourth session, subjects were again tested on both their declarative and procedural knowledge.
Academic text (1994) -
It wasn't a question, it was a declarative statement.
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It's a declarative sentence, so the juxtaposition of the adjective is appropriate in either place.
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We fed it Hemingway and Dostoevsky, and it produced short declarative sentences about deep philosophical questions.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
3
7.7
Saying something clearly in a formal statement, often by a court or official
2
5.8
A verb form used to state facts or ask questions
1
8.3
About statements that can be true or false in logic
Describing a statement that can be seen as true or false
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A sentence that states a fact or gives information, like 'The sky is blue'
How Assertive
5
7.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
7
6.3
79
4.6
57
5.1
26
6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Declarative comes from the Latin parts de- ('completely') and clarare ('to make clear'), the same root you see in the English word declare and in clear. So a declarative sentence 'states' a fact or opinion to make it clear.