T3: Daily Grammar Tool Sharpening
  • Grade 9
    • Unit 1: Vocabulary >
      • #1 Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
      • #2 Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes
      • #3 Contractions
      • #4 Compound Words
      • #5 Connotation and Denotation
      • #6 Idioms
    • Unit 2: Parts of Speech >
      • Parts of Speech Grammar Review Game
    • Unit 3: Sentences >
      • Subjects and Predicates
      • Direct Objects
      • Indirect Objects
      • Subject Complements
      • Types of Sentences
      • Independent and Subordinate Clauses
      • #9 Commonly Confused Words
      • Sentence Fragments
      • Run-On Sentences
      • Comma Splice Errors
    • Unit 4: Punctuation >
      • Capitalization
      • End Punctuation
      • Commas
      • Quotation Marks
      • Punctuating Dialogue
      • Apostrophes
      • Dashes
      • Hyphens
      • Semicolons
      • Colons
      • Parentheses
      • Elipsis Points
  • Grade 10
    • Unit 1: Vocabulary >
      • #1 Greek and Latin Word Origins
      • #2 Prefixes & Suffixes
      • #3 Homophones
      • #4 Idioms
      • #5 Colloquialisms and Slang
      • #6 Connotation and Denotation
      • #7 Figurative Language
      • Lesson #8 Symbols
    • Unit 2: Parts of Speech >
      • Nouns
      • SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS
      • Verbs
      • Basic Verb Tenses
      • Subject-Verb Agreement
      • Active and Passive Voice
      • Pronouns and Antecedents
      • Lesson 8: Personal Pronouns
      • Lesson #9: Relative and Reflexive Pronouns
      • Lesson #10: Using Who/Whom
      • Lesson 11: Adjectives
      • Lesson 12: Comparing with Adjectives
      • Lesson 13: Adverbs
      • Lesson 14: Comparing with Adverbs
    • Unit 3: Sentences >
      • # 11 Identifying Types of Sentences
      • Natural Order and Inverted Order Sentences
      • Sentence Fragments
      • Run-On Sentences and Comma Splice Errors
    • Unit 4: Punctuation >
      • #1 Using Capital Letters
      • #2 Using End Punctuation
      • #3 Commas
      • #4 Punctuating Quotations
      • #5 Quotation Marks, Italics, and Underlining
      • #6 Apostrophes
      • #7 Dashes and Parentheses
      • #8 Hyphens
      • # 9 Semicolons and Colons
  • Grade 11
    • Unit 1: Vocabulary >
      • #1 Origins
      • #2 Morphemes
      • #3 Standard and Non-Standard English
      • #4 Canadian Spelling
      • #5 Denotation & Connotation
      • #6 Figurative Language
      • #7 Academic and Literary Vocabulary
      • #8 Clichés, Jargon, and Redundant Language
      • #9 Commonly Confused Words
    • Unit 2 >
      • Sentence Fragments
      • Run-On Sentences & Comma Splice Errors
    • Unit 3 >
      • Types of Sentences
    • Unit 4: Punctuation >
      • #1 Commas
      • #2 Punctuating Quotations
      • #3 Punctuating Titles
      • #4 Apostrophes
      • #5 Dashes and Parentheses
      • #6 Hyphens
      • #7 Semicolons & Colons
  • Grade 12
    • Unit 1: VOCABULARY >
      • Word Origins
      • Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
      • Standard and Non-Standard English
      • Canadian Spelling
      • Denotation and Connotation
      • Figurative Language
      • Clichés
      • Redundant Language
      • Commonly Confused Words
    • Unit 2: Parts of Speech >
      • Nouns
      • Verbs
      • Tenses
      • Verbals
      • Adjectives and Adverbs
      • Prepositions
      • Modifiers
      • Parallel Structure
    • Unit 3: Sentences >
      • Subject and Predicates >
        • Continued Simple Subjects and Predicates
        • Con't Compound Subjects and Predicates
      • Direct Objects
      • Indirect Objects
      • Subject Complement
      • Phrases and Clauses
      • Independent and Subordinate Clauses
      • Sentence Structure
      • Co-ordination and Subordination
      • Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Elements
      • Sentence Variety
      • Sentence Fragments
      • Run-on Sentences and Comma Splice Errors
    • Unit 4: Punctuation >
      • Comma
      • Semicolons and Colons
      • Parentheses and Dashes
      • Punctuating Quotations
      • Ellipses AND Square Brackets
      • Punctuating Titles
      • Apostrophes
      • Hyphens
  • Workplace/OLC
    • Unit 1: Vocabulary >
      • Lesson 1: Root Words
      • Lesson 2: Prefixes/Suffixes
      • Lesson 3: Synonyms/Antonyms
      • Lesson 4: Slang and Jargon
      • Lesson 5: Standard English
      • Lesson 6: Formal or Informal Language?
      • Lesson 7: Similes
      • Lesson 8: Metaphors
      • Lesson 9: Personification
      • Lesson 10: Borrowed Words
    • Unit 2 : Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation >
      • Lesson 1:Spelling
      • Lesson 2: End Punctuation
      • Lesson 3: Commas
      • Lesson 4: Colons and Semi Colons

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

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