Transcript The 4 Types of Sentences

There are four types of
sentences:
Declarative
Imperative
Exclamatory
Interrogative
• A declarative sentence
makes a statement.
• It is punctuated by a
period.
• Example: The dog in
the neighbor’s yard is
barking.
.
• An imperative sentence is
a command or polite
request.
• It ends in a period or
exclamation mark.
• Examples:
Close the door.
(command)
Please be quiet.
(polite request)
• An exclamatory
sentence expresses
great emotion or
excitement.
• It ends in an
exclamation mark.
• Example:
The house is on fire!
An interrogative sentence asks a
question.
It ends in a
?
Example:
Is it raining?
mark.
Now let’s take a pop quiz.
You have an answer sheet on which to record your answers.
You may use these abbreviations: dec.(declarative), imp.(imperative),ex. (exclamatory), int. (interrogative).
1. Have you made a decision yet?
2. The girl in the white jacket is lost.
3. The Bulldogs won the game in the last three minutes!
4. Give me a piece of pizza.
5. I did not finish my homework.
6. Where is my science book?
7. Please come with me to the movies.
8. I made a perfect score on this test!
9. Why is John late for our date?
10. Open your locker immediately.
Check your answers…
1. Int
2. Dec
3. Ex
4. Imp
5. Dec
6. Int
7. Imp
8. Ex
9. In
10. Imp
0-1 mistakes EXCELLENT
2-3 mistakes GOOD
4-5 mistakes FAIR
More than 5 mistakes…
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By using the four types of sentences in your writing, you can
make your paragraphs more interesting.
Read the sample paragraph below.
My favorite type of fast food is pizza. I could eat pizza
morning, noon, or night. Pepperoni is my number one choice.
I also like double cheese on top. I wish I could order a pizza
right now.
Boring, right? Let’s see how we can use the four types of
sentences and make it more interesting to the reader.
What is your favorite type of fast food? My
favorite is pizza. I just love pepperoni and double
cheese. Sometimes I think I could eat pizza
morning, noon and night! All of this talk about pizza
is making me hungry. Let’s order a pizza now.
This is more interesting, right? In this sample we used the four
different types of sentences. They provided emotion, excitement,
pizzazz to our paragraph.
Now you try. On your worksheet you will find a paragraph
consisting of nothing but declarative sentences. Rewrite your
paragraph so that you utilize the four types of sentences.
This summer I visited Six Flags Over Texas.
Several of my friends went with me. We had lots of fun.
There were lots of exciting rides. My favorite was the Titan
rollercoaster. It had lots of twists and turns at 90 miles per hour.
We rode it at least three times. I would like to visit Six Flags again.
Fragments
• A SENTENCE FRAGMENT fails to be a
sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by
itself. It does not contain even one
independent clause. There are several
reasons why a group of words may seem to
act like a sentence but not have the
wherewithal to make it as a complete
thought.
Examples
• It may locate something in time and place with a
prepositional phrase or a series of such phrases, but it's
still lacking a proper subject-verb relationship within an
independent clause:
• In Japan, during the last war and just before the armistice.
This sentence accomplishes a great deal in terms of placing
the reader in time and place, but there is no subject, no verb.
•
• It describes something, but there is no subject-verb
relationship:
• Working far into the night in an effort to salvage her little
boat. This is a verbal phrase that wants to modify
something, the real subject of the sentence (about to come
up), probably the she who was working so hard.
•
Examples
• It may have most of the makings of a sentence but still be
missing an important part of a verb string:
• Some of the students working in Professor Espinoza's laboratory
last semester. Remember that an -ing verb form without an
auxiliary form to accompany it can never be a verb.
•
• It may even have a subject-verb relationship, but it has been
subordinated to another idea by a dependent word and so
cannot stand by itself:
• Even though he had the better arguments and was by far the
more powerful speaker. This sentence fragment has a subject,
he, and two verbs, had and was, but it cannot stand by itself
because of the dependent word (subordinating conjunction) even
though. We need an independent clause to follow up this
dependent clause: . . . the more powerful speaker, he lost the
case because he didn't understand the jury.