Their use at the end of a declarative statement may date back in America to the 17th century.

A declarative statement should not be deemed synonymous with an affirmative one.

Think, no one making a declarative statement and posing it as question.

"But I really believe we have to make a simple declarative statement that above all else, teaching matters," he said.

Their first album had been a declarative statement, their second a question.

But many analysts did not believe those reports at the time, and were shocked to hear the president make such a flat, declarative statement.

A declarative statement is made, followed by a pause and then an emphatic "not!"

The result is a negation of the original declarative statement.

It is a simple declarative statement of fact, without legal consequences, that a war situation has come to exist.

The collected declarative statements in a program or routine make up its declaration part.