But following the attacks, when declarative sentences were the only ones heard, and those who urged caution and restraint were compared to Neville Chamberlain, something more urgent, punitive and ...

Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. “This was a ...

Standard English has four clause types (five if you treat 2a and 2b as separate), differing with respect to which words you put where: The first of these is a declarative used to present a ...

But this doesn't mean sticking to simple declarative sentences all the time. Good prose must not only be concise and clear, but must sound natural and engaging as well. An unbroken succession of ...

Several models have been proposed to account for the neurocognitive basis of the mental lexicon (a repository of stored words) and the mental grammar (which captures the regularities of language).