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* ''Are you feeling well?''

==Declarative vs. Affirmativeaffirmative vs. Positivepositive==

A declarative statement should not be deemed synonymous with an [[affirmative (linguistics)|affirmative]] one. This is because although a declarative statement can state facts (given that the speaker is not consciously lying), it can also express something which is not true. The information he or she is providing, regardless of whether it be true or not in ''reality'', is in fact true or false to that speaker. Therefore, a declarative can be either in the affirmative or in the [[negation (linguistics)|negative]], and we can say that, ''Joanna is late'' and ''Joanna is not late'', both technically qualify as declarative sentences. ''Declarative'' refers to a sentence's function or purpose, while ''affirmative'' and ''negative'' deal with a sentence's veracity, or grammatical polarity, which is why the different terms can overlap simultaneously.