4 kinds of

sentences
What is a sentence?

• A sentence is a group of words

giving a complete thought.

• The sentence is generally
defined as a word or a group of
words that expresses a thorough
idea by giving a statement/order,
or asking a question, or
exclaiming.
 What are the kinds of sentences?

01 02 03 04

Declarative Interrogative Imperative Exclamatory

Sentences Sentences Sentences Sentences
What is a declarative sentence?

• Declarative sentences
(also called assertive
sentences) give
information.

• They may state a fact or

an opinion.

• Declarative sentences end

with periods ( . ) or a full-
stop.
Examples:
• I like riding my bicycle around the park .
• My essay is better than yours .
• His mother raised him to be a gentleman .
What is an interrogative sentence?

• Interrogative sentences
ask a question.

• Interrogative sentences
end with question marks
(?).
 Question words
who, when, where, 
why, what,
and how.

moving the helping verb before

the subject
You have answered Do you have any
all the questions on more cough
this test, haven't tag/tail question drops?
you? (After a
declarative sentence)
 Examples:

Question words tag/tail question

moving the helping verb
before the subject
• Why are you late ? • Do you want to go • Close the window, will
• What time is it ? there ? you ? (After an
• Where is the imperative sentence)
• Does she love you as
library ? • It’s cold, isn’t it ? (After a
• Who are you with? the way you do ? declarative sentence)
• When will you come • Can I borrow your • Your face has been
over ? grammar book for a looking like that for an
• How are things day ? hour, hasn't it ? (After a
going ? declarative sentence)
What is an imperative sentence?
• Imperative sentences give a
command, a request, advice, a
suggestion, a warning, or a
wish.

• They can be followed by a

period ( . ), a question mark
( ? ), or an exclamation mark
( ! ).

• Always takes the second

person (you) for the subject
but most of the time the
subject remains hidden.
 Examples: More Examples:
• Be quiet .  • Wayne, turn to page 37.
(a command)
• Please have a seat .  • Will you please mind your
(a request) manners?
• Watch out ! 
(a command) • Read a lot to improve your
• Enjoy ourselves .  writing skill.
(a wish)
• Write whenever you get a
chance.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
• Exclamatory sentences exclaim,
or show great emotion.

• Exclamatory sentences end with

exclamation marks ( ! ).

• Use exclamation marks only

when necessary. It's easy to
overuse them.

• Exclamatory sentences can

begin with question words.
Fun fact:

The ‽ is called the interrobang. It truly is a type of

punctuation mark. It was invented by a journalist in
1962. Martin K. Speckter combined the ? and ! since
he didn't like using two end marks. It didn't catch on.
Most teachers don't like two end marks either.
Sometimes, though, you really need both. It's okay
in informal writing. Only one exclamation mark at a
time is enough in formal writing.
Examples:
• Wow!
• That magic trick was amazing!
• What wonderful weather we are having
today!
• How lovely to see you!
 LESSON DEVELOPMENT
Declarative
sentences give
01 information

Interrogative
02 sentences ask a
question.

We use an imperative
sentence to make a
03 request or to give a
command

Exclamatory
04 sentence expresses
overflow of emotions.
 Exercise 1:

Shaun loves to watch movies with his

friends.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 2:

Don’t shoot the lion unless it comes to hurt you.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 3:

John could not recall where he lived.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 4:

May I go outside to play with my friends, mom?

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 5:

Don’t you dare talking to me in that tone!

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Exclamatory Sentence
 Exercise 6:

The English ruled and oppressed the half of the

world for about two hundred years.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 7:

I pray to your kind self for granting me three day’s

sick leave.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 8:

Who dares to defy me?

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 9:

What an exciting match it was! Blessed my eyes

are!

Declarative Sentence

Exclamatory sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Exercise 10:

Come back as soon as possible if you want to do

well in your exams.

Declarative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence
 Corduroy
Corduroy is a bear who once lived in the toy department of a big store. Day after
day he waited with all the other animals and dolls for someone to come along
and take him home.

The store was always filled with shoppers buying all sorts of things, but no one
ever seemed to want a small bear in green overalls. Then one morning a little
girl stopped and looked straight into Corduroy's bright eyes.

“Oh, Mommy!” she said. “Look! There's the very bear I've always wanted.”

“Not today, dear.” Her mother sighed. “I've spent too much already. Besides, he
doesn't look new. He's lost the button to one of his shoulder straps.”

Corduroy watched them sadly as they walked away.

“I didn't know I'd lost a button,” he said to himself. “Tonight I'll go and see if I can
find it.”
Late that evening, when all the shoppers had gone and the doors were shut and
locked, Corduroy climbed carefully down from his shelf and began searching
everywhere on the floor for his lost button.

Suddenly he felt the floor moving under him! Quite by accident he had stepped
onto an escalator – and up he went!

“Could this be a mountain?” he wondered. “I think I've always wanted to climb a

mountain.”

He stepped off the escalator as it reached the next floor, and there, before his
eyes, was a most amazing sight – tables and chairs and lamps and sofas, and
rows and rows of beds.

“This must be a palace!” Corduroy

gasped.

“I guess I've always wanted to live in a palace.”

He wandered around admiring the furniture.

“This must be a bed,” he said. “I've always wanted to sleep in a bed.” And up he
crawled onto a large, thick mattress.

All at once he saw something small and round. “Why, here's my button!” he cried.
And he tried to pick it up. But, like all the other buttons on the mattress, it was
tied down tight.

He yanked and pulled with both paws until POP! Off came the button – and off the
mattress Corduroy toppled, bang into a tall floor lamp. Over it fell with a crash!

Corduroy didn't know it, but there was someone else awake in the store. The night
watchman was going his rounds on the floor above. When he heard the crash
he came dashing down the escalator.

“Now who in the world did that!” he exclaimed. “Somebody must be hiding around
here!”
He flashed his light under and over sofas and beds until he came to the biggest
bed of all. And there he saw two fuzzy brown ears sticking up from under the
cover.

“Hello!” he said. “How did you get upstairs?”

The watchman tucked Corduroy under his arm and carried him down the escalator
and set him on the shelf in the toy department with the other animals and dolls.

Corduroy was just waking up when the first customers came into the store in the
morning. And there, looking at him with a wide, warm smile, was the same little
girl he'd seen only the day before.

“I'm Lisa,” she said, “and you're going to be my very own. Last night I counted what
I've saved in my piggy bank and my mother said I
could bring you home.”
“Shall I put him in a box for you?” the saleslady asked.

“Oh, no thank you,” Lisa answered.

And she carried Corduroy home in her arms. She ran all the way up four flights of
stairs, into her family's apartment, and straight to her own room.

Corduroy blinked. There was a chair and a chest of drawers, and alongside a girl-
size bed stood a little bed just the right size for him.

The room was small, nothing like that enormous palace in the department store.
“This must be home,” he said. “I know I've always wanted a home!”

Lisa sat down with Corduroy on her lap and began to sew a button on his overalls.
“I like you the way you are,” she said, “but you'll be more comfortable with your
shoulder strap fastened.”

“You must be a friend,” said Corduroy. “I've always wanted a friend.”

“Me too!” said Lisa, and gave him a big hug.

 ASSIGNMENT
Sentence Transformation Worksheet

Directions: Transform each sentence from one type to the type indicated below. You can add,
remove or re-arrange words. Be sure to pay attention to punctuation.

Declarative to Exclamatory:
1. I love amusement parks.
2. My mother, on the other hand, likes the rollercoaster, too.
3. It’s so scary, we scream.

Interrogative to Declarative:
4. Of all the rides at the amusement park, are roller coasters the best?
5. Why do my little brother and sister prefer riding the boats?
6. Does Dad mind riding with them?

Interrogative to Exclamatory:
7. Is she a real daredevil, just like me?
8. Can you believe there are roller coasters that drop more than
60 feet? ?
9. Can you think of more fun?

Declarative to Imperative:
10. Before our car starts to travel upward, Mom says, "Hold on.

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