0 a sentence that makes a statement or states a fact
1 a sentence that makes a statement or states a fact
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.
The first two examples are not declarative sentences and therefore are not (or do not make) statements.
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.
Now more generally of any verb whose form is such that it can stand in a simple declarative sentence.
Rule-based theories of object wh-question acquisition make the additional assumption that children are applying the following grammatical movement rules to transform an underlying declarative sentence into a wh-question.