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 TYPES OF SENTENCES
Four main sentence types:
1. Declarative sentence (a statement) – Câu trần thuật
- All declaratives end in a period and are informative
statements or express an opinion.
- Used periods with declarative sentences
Ex: She leaves for college tomorrow morning.
2. Interrogative sentences (questions)– Câu nghi vấn
- Asked in order to obtain information
- End in a question mark.
Ex: How do you spend your money?
3. Imperative sentences (a direction or command)- Câu
mệnh lệnh/ cầu khiến)
- gives requests, demands, or instructions; or, shares wishes or
invitations for others
- Used periods or exclamation marks with Imperative sentences
Ex:
• Do Not Enter.
• Please be quiet in the library.
• Let’s eat.
• Come with me.
• Be nice!
• Help me!
4. An exclamatory Sentence (an exclamation)- Câu cảm thán
- Is a more forceful version of a  declarative sentence
- Makes a statement (just like a declarative sentence), but it
also conveys excitement or emotion
- Ends with an exclamation mark (!)
Ex: You were meant to be back yesterday!(expresses anger)
• Jeepers! You scared the life out of me!(expresses surprise)
• We won! (expresses happiness)
• This puzzle is driving me up the wall!(expresses frustration)
• You're adorable!(expresses love)
• It's a boy!(expresses joy)
• I'm really going to miss this place! (expresses sorrow)
 PRACTICE
Write the sentence type (declarative, interrogative,
imperative, exclamatory) next to each sentence.
1. Hong: There are so many cars here!
Exclamatory
2. Nam: Yeah, I know. It’s hard to believe we
Declarative
can finally afford a new one.
3.Hong: I just wish we had gotten the money a
Declarative
different way than we did.
4. Nan: Me, too. I didn’t even know your uncle
Declarative
very well.
5. Hong: Didn’t you meet him at the
Interrogative
wedding?
 PRACTICE
Declarative
6. Nan: Yes, but I only had a short
conversation with him
7. Hong: I had no idea that he was going
Declarative to
leave us so much money.
Exclamatory/
8. Nan: Speaking of money, hold my
Imperative
purse for a minute I can’t find my wallet.
9. Lee has never caught a decent bass.
Declarative
10. Fish somewhere else!
Imperative
 ANSWER KEY
1. Exclamatory
2. Declarative
3. Declarative
4. Declarative
5. Interrogative
6. Declarative
7. Declarative
8. Exclamatory/ Imperative
9. Declarative
10. Imperative
 REFERENCES
Craven, M. and Sherman, D. K. (2011). Q: Skills for Success 3—
Listening and Speaking (pp.179-180). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
http://
examples.yourdictionary.com/declarative-sentence-examples.html#48
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http://englishsentences.com/imperative-sentence/
http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/exclamatory_sentence.htm