Types of Sentences According to Function

What Is This Module About?

Learning Strand 1 - Communication Skills

LS 2 - Scientific Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills
LS 3 – Mathematical and Problem Solving Skills
Content Standard - Reading Skills, 5Rs in Waste Management
and Unit of Measurement in Electric and Water Meter Reading
Performance Standard D: Acquire and critically process information from a
wide range of written and multimedia materials in the English language to
function effectively as a member of the family, community, nation, and the
world, and to participate in community and economic development.

Batangueńos are now living in the world of technology and massive

industrial age and revolution. Various business firms and establishments within
the city are constructed year after year. Malls and households are also increasing
in number. Along with this, the demand for water and electric consumption as
well as other products raises. This means that each day Batangas City needs to
manage well its sustainability. And along with this, voluminous wastes every
day must be managed to keep the city clean and lessen the pollutions.
This module contains lesson on Types of Sentences according to
Function/Purpose through an integrated content about 5R’s in waste
management and unit of measurement in electric and water meter reading.

What Will You Learn From This Module?

As an ALS learner in Batangas City, it is very much important for you to
develop your reading skill. This can be facilitated by using content taken from
other learning strands such as 5R’s in waste management and unit of
measurement in electric and water meter reading. Paying close attention to the
target skills and the implied idea expressed in the content used, you will be
learning a lot from this module.
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 By studying this module, you should be able to acquire the following learning
competencies:

1. Use different kinds of sentences (e.g., declarative, interrogative,

exclamatory, imperative) with appropriate punctuation marks.
LS1CS/EN-S-PSB-LE-62
2. Identify the kinds of sentences (i.e., declarative, interrogative)
(LS1CS/EN- R- PSD – LE- 10)
3. Recognize punctuation marks (period, question mark, exclamation
point) (LS1CS/EN-R-PSD-LE - 11)
4. Recognize the importance of recycle, reduce, reuse, recover and repair
in waste management. (LS2SC-AS-PSA –LE-1.15)
5. Recognize the units of measure in reading and estimating water and
electricity consumption (cubic meter and kilowatt – hour). (LS3CP/NS –NS
– PSD – LE/AE/LS -25.1)

Let’s See What You Already Knew

Pre- Test
Recognize each type of sentence and label each as to its type (declarative, interrogative,
exclamatory or imperative).
1. Electric reading uses the unit kw/h.
2. Please pay our water bill.ODUL
3. Oh no, our electric bill is high!
4. If every cubic meter costs Php.14.00, how much will you pay if you consume
10 cubic meter for the month?
5. Cubic meter is the unit for water meter reading.
6. How do we read our electric consumption?
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 7. Gosh! Our electric bill has increased for almost Php. 20, from Php. 150.00
raises to Php. 170.00!
8. Pay your bill or we will cut your electricity supply.
9. The unit for electricity is kw/h and an increase in consumption per kw/h will
mean an increase in bill.
10. Our monthly due date is every 27th of the month.
11. We should practice 5Rs namely reduce, reuse, recycle, recover
and repair at home and community.
12. Why is it beneficial to always segregate our garbage?
13. How embarrassing! People still throw trashes in the bodies of water.
14. Act now and save our environment before it is too late.
15. Practice waste management or suffer the consequences of your
misdeed.

Lesson

Types of sentences according to Function/ Purpose

When we write or speak, we can use many different types of sentences to

express what we want to say. Here, we will discuss four main types of sentences
namely declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentence. Each
has its own purpose and patterns. Don’t be afraid of their fancy names because
their meanings are simple and easy to understand.

Let’s Think About This

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 Try to construct your own sentences guided by picture and the purpose you
want to convey for constructing your own sentences. Try to construct two or
four sentences and use appropriate punctuation mark for each sentence.

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A. Write two sentences which may either request Batanguenos to observe

cleanliness and practice waste management.
B. Write two sentences that express your emotions about the idea expressed in
the picture.

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C. Write two sentences that ask questions about the idea expressed in the
picture.
D. Write two sentences that tell something about the idea expressed in the
pictures.

Let’s Learn

Did you construct the required sentences? What do you think is your purpose in
constructing two sentences asked on letter A? on letter B? on C? and on D?
How about the punctuation mark you used, is it appropriate? You will realize
how important a sentence is for conveying meaning and expressing ideas.

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 Your sentences will be more likely similar from the sentences below:
A. Please join the international coastal clean - up.
Segregate wastes and follow waste management.
B. Wow! How good it is to clean the surroundings!
What a brilliant idea it is!
C. What is the unit used in water meter reading?
How do we compute our electric consumption?
D. Batanguenos use electricity wisely.
There is enough supply of water in Batangas City.
Could you identify which among these sentences function as:
Sentence/s stating or declaring something?
Sentence/s that ask questions?
Sentence/s that express strong emotions /feelings?
Sentence/s that give command, ask favor or making request?

Let’s Try This

Directions: Read each sentences below and identify the sentence type does each
one belong according to its purpose. Choose the letter of your answer from the
box. Write only the letter of your answer.

A. Declarative C. Exclamatory
B. Interrogative D. Imperative

1. Sit down and listen about Batangas City ENRO’s discussion.

2. Refrain from throwing garbage at Calumpang river.
3. What an embarrassing practice that is!
4. Batanguenos know how to conserve water and electricity.
5. Do you love Batangas City, don’t you?
6. Batangas City bans burning of wastes to lessen pollution.

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 7. Kw/h is the unit of measurement for electric consumption.
8. Where did you put your trash/garbage?
9. OMG! My electric bill has increased a lot this month, we have only
2600 kw/h last month now it raises to 4670 kw/h!
10. How much increase do you have if you paid Php. 256.00 last month
with Php. 274.00 this month?

Let’s Learn

In linguistics, sentence function refers to a speaker’s purpose in

uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause. The four basic sentence
functions in the world’s languages include the declarative,
interrogative, exclamatory and the imperative. These correspond to a
statement, question, exclamation and command respectively.

Declarative sentence

This is the most common type of sentence according to function. It is

use to state something. There is a pattern for the formation of a declarative
sentence. In its formation, the subject comes first and the predicate follows
it immediately. In other words, the declarative sentence is the basic form.
The basic form of a sentence is when the subject comes first and the
predicate follows the subject immediately. Period (.) is the punctuation
mark used in this type of sentence. Examples are:

 Teen - agers from Batangas have shown care in the environment.

 The class of ALS Batangas city is making a debate about negative effects of
improper waste disposal.
 The teacher from Batangas is teaching learners how to compute water
comsumption.
 Cubic meter is the unit for water meter reading.

Interrogative Sentence

An interrogative sentence is a sentence that seeks to elicit information.

When you need to ask a question, the interrogative sentence comes handy.

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Question mark is the punctuation used in this kind of sentence. Before we give
examples of an interrogative sentence, it is essential, at this point, to let you
know that there are various types of questions in English. We have the
following questions which are all forms of interrogation and, therefore, fall
under the category of interrogative questions:

Yes/No Questions - This type of question requires yes or no for an answer.

In the syntactic of the polar question, there is subject-operator inversion; that is,
we inverse the primary auxiliary such that it takes the place of the subject. We
also call this ‘S-op’ inversion. For instance:

 ‘Those girls are planting gumamela.’ becomes ‘Are those girls planting
gumamela?’
 ‘Your electric bill will increase this summer.’ becomes ‘will your electric
bill increase this summer?’
 ‘She was protesting her arrest for throwing toxic wastes at Wawa river.’
becomes ‘Was she protesting her arrest for throwing toxic wastes at
Wawa river?’

Here some more examples:

 Are those trash bins for waste segregation?

 Will you join the bakawan planting in Sta. Clara area?
 Will the garbage truck from the city come today?

 Take note that at the end of the question, the voice pitch rises.

‘Wh’ Question - This type of question usually starts with the ‘wh’ element
which we refer to as the ‘Q-word’ that is, the ‘question word’. An answer to this
type of question cannot be ‘yes’ or ‘no’ like Question. Examples include:

 What are you doing at Meralco Batangas branch?

 How does it feel looking at Calumpang river today?
 Where do vendors in “Luma” public market dispose their wastes?
 Why is water bill tended to rise during summer?
 When are we planning to start wastes segregation?

Unlike the polar question, which has the possibility of only two answers,
that is ‘yes’ or ‘no’, ‘wh’–question permits broad or open-ended number of
answers. Note that the voice pitch drops at the end of the question. This
distinguishes it from the yes/no Question among other things. In forming this
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 type of question, the Q-word (what) comes first, the operator (the auxiliary
verb) follows, the subject comes next, then the lexical verb and the adjunct.

Exclamatory Sentence

This type of sentence expresses an emotional feeling and it is usually ended

with an exclamation point (!). In the formation of this type of sentence, the EX-
element, which brings out the exclamation, always comes first; then a
complement intensive usually follows and the subject and predicate follow
respectively. Each sentence formation depends on the structure of the
exclamatory sentence. Look at this example, “How I used to enjoy myself in
those days!,” (the EX-element ‘how’, an adjunct, comes first, then comes the
subject, predicate the complement intensive and the adjunct respectively. For
example:

 Wow! What a wonderful campaign this is!

 How lovely Mabini plaza looks!
 Eto Batangueno disiplinado!
 What a strange sight they saw in Verde island!
 What a mess!

Imperative Sentence

An imperative sentence is one that makes or expresses a command, gives an order

or gives an instruction. Depending on the tone of the voice, a command sentence can
also be a request sentence. In the syntactic formation of an imperative sentence, the
subject is deleted and an imperative verb is used. Note that we use ‘may’ and ‘could’
to make polite requests in English. Examples of the interrogative sentence include:

 Stop polluting rivers in Batangas immediately!

 Work on these recycling and reducing!
 Practice recycling and reducing.
 Stop wasting water and electricity.
 Get out of here now!
 State your mission clearly!

Let’s Review

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A. Directions: Read the sentences below and identify as to which type each
sentence belongs. Write only the letter of your answer. Choose your answer
from the box.

A. Declarative

B. Interrogative

C. Exclamatory

D. Imperative

1. Very good! Our house is clean now.

2. My Mom was shocked upon seeing our electric bill.

3. Kindly compute my water meter reading of 400 cubic meter for this
month.

4. How much increase do you have if you paid Php. 256.00 last month with
Php. 274.00 this month?

5. What are some proper ways of disposing garbage?

6. Next time I will manage the use of electricity wisely because our bill has
increased an amount of Php. 150.00 compare last month.

7. Pay your bill on time to avoid penalties of almost Php. 16.00 each day of
delay.

8.Ooh! Who threw this candy wrapper at the backyard!

9. Recovering wastes in Batangas City will be easy if they will segregate

their wastes.

10. Leaks in water pipes should be reported to Batangas Prime water.

Let’s Remember

Key Points
TThere
There are only four common types of sentences according to function. The first is
declarative sentence which provides statement or declare some idea. Interrogative
sentence seeks information by asking questions. It comes in varied forms such as yes/no
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questions and “wh” questions. Third type is exclamatory sentence which expresses strong
emotion such as yelling and exclaiming. Then, imperative sentence which is used to give
command or directions and to request.
 Based from the given key points above, try to make your own generalization
about the type of sentences according to use or function. Feel free to use three
or more sentences or a paragraph for your answer.
Let’s See What You Have Learned

Directions: Identify the type of sentence according to function on the following

dialogues. Write only the letter of your answer.
A. Declarative

B. Interrogative

C. Exclamatory

D. Imperative

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Valuing
Why is it important to develop our reading skills?
Why is it helpful for you to learn how to read water meter reading and electric
bill?
Why is it necessary for us to practice proper waste disposal?

Post Test
Recognize each type of sentence and label each as to its type (declarative,
interrogative, exclamatory or imperative).
1. Electric reading uses the unit kw/h.
2. Please pay our water bill.
3. Oh no, our electric bill is high!
4. If every cubic meter costs Php.14.00, how much will you pay if you
consume 10 cubic meter for the month?
5. Cubic meter is the unit for water meter reading.
6. How do we read our electric consumption?
7. Gosh! Our electric bill has increased for almost Php. 20, from Php.
150.00 raises to Php. 170.00!
8. Pay your bill or we will cut your electricity supply.
9. The unit for electricity is kw/h and an increase in consumption per
kw/h will mean an increase in bill.
10.Our monthly due date is every 27th of the month.
11.We should practice 5Rs namely reduce, reuse, recycle,
recover and repair at home and community.
12.Why is it beneficial to always segregate our garbage?
13.How embarrassing! People still throw trashes in the bodies of water.
14.Act now and save our environment before it is too late.
15.Practice waste management or suffer the consequences of
your misdeed.

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 Were you able to get the perfect score? That’s great! It means that you have
learned a lot from this lesson. You may now recognize the function of the
sentences that you may encounter. For your reference, you may compare your
answers with the answer key provided on page 29.

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