Identifying Types of Sentences

Sentences can be identified by type.

A declarative sentence makes a statement.It is followed by a period.
EXAMPLE: Our band is the best.
An interrogative sentence asks a question.
It is followed by a question mark.
EXAMPLE: Why did you choose such a strange place?
An imperative sentence expresses a command or request.
it is followed by a period or an exclamation mark.
EXAMPLE: Finish your work.
An exclamatory sentence expresses surprise or strong emotion.
It is followed by an exclamation mark.
EXAMPLE: What a great concert!


Instructions:
Identify each of the following sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
  1. "How beautiful a street is in winter!" (Virginia Woolf7)

  2. "Have the skillet hot and keep it well greased." (Ernest Hemingway8)

  3. "We boarded our train with feelings of unbounded relief." (James Weldon Johnson9)

  4. "Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water." (George Orwell10)

  5. "Where were the blackbirds?" (Richard Jefferies11)

  6. "Always obey your parents, when they are present." (Mark Twain12)

  7. "The house was so big that there was always a room to hide in, and I had a red pony and a garden where I could wander." (W.B. Yeats13)

  8. "Even now, the sight of an old, six-inch, worm-eaten cork brings fragrant memories!" (Samuel H. Scudder14)

  9. "Why does a funeral always sharpen one's sense of humor and rouse one's spirits?" (George Bernard Shaw15)

  10. "And whom should we see in the evening, but our two little boys, walking on each side of a fierce, yellow-faced, bearded man!" (William Makepeace Thackeray16)

  11. "How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" (Zora Neale Hurston17)

  12. "He was exceedingly poor, wearing only a ragged shirt and trousers." (James Huneker18)

  13. "Quietly go in, sit down, look at your man until you have seen him enough, and then go." (H.G. Wells19)

  14. "I looked tired, but my complexion was good." (Emma Goldman20)

  15. "Not a man in London made a better boot!" (John Galsworthy21)



Here are the answers to the exercise on page one: Identifying Sentences by Function1.
  1. exclamatory sentence

  2. imperative sentence

  3. declarative sentence

  4. declarative sentence

  5. interrogative sentence

  6. imperative sentence

  7. declarative sentence

  8. exclamatory sentence

  9. interrogative sentence

  10. exclamatory sentence

  11. interrogative sentence

  12. declarative sentence

  13. imperative sentence

  14. declarative sentence

  15. exclamatory sentence