The phrase "affirmative sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in grammar to refer to a sentence that states a fact or opinion, as opposed to a negative or interrogative sentence.
Example: "An affirmative sentence clearly expresses a statement, such as 'The sky is blue.'"
Alternatives: "positive statement" or "assertive sentence".
Presentations of the questions use an affirmative sentence and rate the frequency of behavior shown in the evaluation period.
Deontic modal values (obligation) can be expressed indirectly with the auxiliary verb 可 kě yǐ) 'can' in combination with double negation 不可不 bù kě yǐ) bù 'cannot not >>> must'.37 The only auxiliary verb expressing a direct obligation in an affirmative sentence is the auxiliary verb 必 bì 'must'.38 As a modal verb, it conveys deontic modality in the strict sense.
However, a new question could arise: if universals and singulars, and the ten categories, are really distinct, how can Burley maintain that there must be an identity relation holding between the things signified by the subject and predicate of every true affirmative sentence?
The Vatican said Wednesday that the congregation's cardinals and bishop members had arrived at an "affirmative sentence" concerning Serra's canonization and that Francis had approved their decision.
Simple, declarative, affirmative sentences have two main patterns with five subsidiary patterns within each.
True affirmative sentences about a natural matter maintain the existence of compounds which cannot be otherwise; these sentences as well as the compounds are called necessary.
As this synthesis technique was designed for neutral speech (affirmative sentences) and not expressive speech, markers on the upper part of the face move very little.
False affirmative sentences about a remote matter maintain the existence of compounds which are necessarily non-existent; they are called impossible.
Ryle is here, as elsewhere, insisting on the idea that the primary role of certain (significant, affirmative) indicative sentences, even if they can be construed as having truth-values and as fact-stating, is often different.
Our results indicate that grammatical cues prompting motor negation reduce the cortico-spinal suppression associated with affirmative action sentences reading and thus suggest that motor simulative processes underlying the embodiment may involve even syntactic features of language.
Interestingly, the fine-grained temporal resolution provided by TMS allowed us to provide neural indexes of the lack of simulation contingent upon negation even in the time window where affirmative and negative sentences should not differ on the basis of the model proposed by Kaup and colleagues [59] (500–700 ms after stimulus presentation).
