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.
Here are the answers to the exercise on page one: Identifying Sentences by Function1.
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.
- "How beautiful a street is in winter!" (Virginia Woolf7)
- "Have the skillet hot and keep it well greased." (Ernest Hemingway8)
- "We boarded our train with feelings of unbounded relief." (James Weldon Johnson9)
- "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)
- "Where were the blackbirds?" (Richard Jefferies11)
- "Always obey your parents, when they are present." (Mark Twain12)
- "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)
- "Even now, the sight of an old, six-inch, worm-eaten cork brings fragrant memories!" (Samuel H. Scudder14)
- "Why does a funeral always sharpen one's sense of humor and rouse one's spirits?" (George Bernard Shaw15)
- "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)
- "How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" (Zora Neale Hurston17)
- "He was exceedingly poor, wearing only a ragged shirt and trousers." (James Huneker18)
- "Quietly go in, sit down, look at your man until you have seen him enough, and then go." (H.G. Wells19)
- "I looked tired, but my complexion was good." (Emma Goldman20)
- "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.
- exclamatory sentence
- imperative sentence
- declarative sentence
- declarative sentence
- interrogative sentence
- imperative sentence
- declarative sentence
- exclamatory sentence
- interrogative sentence
- exclamatory sentence
- interrogative sentence
- declarative sentence
- imperative sentence
- declarative sentence
- exclamatory sentence