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Sentence and It's Structure

The document outlines four types of sentences: assertive (declarative), interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory, each serving different purposes and punctuated accordingly. It further categorizes sentences based on clauses into simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, providing examples for each type. Understanding these sentence structures enhances clarity and expression in writing.

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Sentence and It's Structure

The document outlines four types of sentences: assertive (declarative), interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory, each serving different purposes and punctuated accordingly. It further categorizes sentences based on clauses into simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, providing examples for each type. Understanding these sentence structures enhances clarity and expression in writing.

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There are four kinds of sentences.

Assertive or Declarative Sentence


A sentence that makes a statement or assertion is called an assertive or
declarative sentence. Assertive sentence ends with a period.
Examples
 He goes to school
 He likes to play chess.
 They are singing a song.
Interrogative Sentence
A sentence that asks a question is called an interrogative sentence.
Interrogative sentence ends with question mark.
Examples.
 Where are you going?
 Do you use your laptop?
Imperative Sentence
A sentence that expresses a request, command or advice is called an
imperative sentence.
Examples
 Open the door.(an order)
 Please help me(a request)
Exclamatory Sentence
A sentence that expresses strong feelings or emotions is called an
exclamatory sentence. These sentences express surprise, joy, sorrow,
appreciation, love excitement, frustration, anger etc. An exclamatory sentence
ends with exclamation mark.
Examples
 What a beautiful flower it is!
 How nicely she is singing!
 That is fantastic!
 Hurrah! We won the match!

Sentence types: One way to categorize sentences is by the clauses they


contain. (A clause is a part of a sentence containing a subject and a
predicate.) Here are the 4 sentence types:
Simple: Contains a single, independent clause.
 The girl is learning how to drive
 I don't like dogs.
 Our school cricket team lost their last game of the season 2009-2010.
 The old hotel opposite the bus station in the center of the town is
probably going to be knocked down at the end of next month.
Compound: Contains two independent clauses that are joined by a
coordinating conjunction. (The most common coordinating
conjunctions are: but, or, and, so, For, nor, yet. Remember: FAN BOYS.)
 I don't like dogs, and my sister doesn't like cats.
 You can write on paper, or you can use a computer.
 Habib waited for the train,but the train was late.
 A tree fell onto the school roof in a storm, but none of the students was
injured.
Complex: Contains an independent clause plus one or more dependent
clauses. (A dependent clause starts with a subordinating conjunction.
Examples: that, because, while, although, where, if, after,as, before, even,
though, since, unless, until, when, whenever, whereas, wherever.)
 The girl who is learning how to drive is still twelve years old.
 She faced the whole trouble with courage and managed to solve the
problem all by herself
 I don't like dogs that bark at me when I go past.
 She did my homework, while her father cooked dinner.
 You can write on paper, although a computer is better if you want to
correct mistakes easily.
The dependent clauses can go first in the sentence, followed by the
independent clause, as in the following:
Remember: When the dependent clause comes first, a comma should be
used to separate the two clauses.
1. Because Chumky and Mony arrived at the bus station before noon, I did
not see them at the station.
2. While he waited at the train station, Rakib realized that the train was
late.
3. After they left on the bus, Chumky and Mony realized that Rakib was
waiting at the train station.
Conversely, the independent clauses can go first in the sentence, followed by
the dependent clause, as in the following:
Remember: When the independent clause comes first, a comma
should not be used to separate the two clauses.
1. I did not see them at the station because Chumky and Mony arrived at
the bus station before noon.
2. Rakib realized that the train was late while he waited at the train station.
3. Chumky and Mony realized that Rakib was waiting at the train station
after they left on the bus.
 Compound-complex: Contains 3 or more clauses (of which at least
two are independent and one or more dependent clauses)
Some examples:
1.Although I like to go camping ,I haven't had the time to go lately, and I
haven't found anyone to go with.
 independent clause:I haven't had the time to go lately.
 independent clause: I haven't found anyone to go with
 dependent clause:Although I like to go camping.
2. We decided that the movie was too violent, but our children, who like to
watch scary movies, thought that we were wrong.
 independent clause:We decided that the movie was too violent.
 independent clause:(but) our children thought that we were wrong
 dependent clause:who like to watch scary movies

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