Kinds of Sentences

Kinds of Sentences

Declarative Sentences

• make a statement

• express an opinion

• ends with a period
  
  

• Example: Benjamin Franklin made important contributions to the development of America.

Interrogative Sentences

• ask a question

• end in a question mark

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• Example: Will you please put your mask over your nose?

Imperative Sentences

• give a command

• make a request

• ends in period or exclamation point

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• Example: Please pass the popcorn.

• Example: Don't touch that electric cord!

Exclamatory Sentences

• a statement or command with strong feeling

• may end in an exclamation point

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• Example: Don't touch that!

• Example: I'm so excited to be here today!

Multiple Choice

Identify the sentence type:

In what year did Saul Bellow win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

• Declarative

• Interrogative

• Imperative

• Exclamatory

Multiple Choice

Identify the sentence type:

I hiked a lot during quarantine.

• declarative

• interrogative

• imperative

• exclamatory

Multiple Choice

Identify the sentence type:

Hand me your phone.

• declarative

• interrogative

• imperative

• exclamatory

Multiple Choice

Identify the sentence type:

How remarkable that we have the same class schedule!

• declarative

• interrogative

• imperative

• exclamatory

Multiple Choice

Identify the sentence type:

Hand me your phone.

• declarative

• interrogative

• imperative

• exclamatory