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Sentence and Types of Sentences: Entidhar Al-Rashid Master of English Literature

This document defines and provides examples of the four main types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory. It also discusses simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Various sentences are identified as examples of each sentence type.

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Sentence and Types of Sentences: Entidhar Al-Rashid Master of English Literature

This document defines and provides examples of the four main types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory. It also discusses simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Various sentences are identified as examples of each sentence type.

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SENTENCE AND TYPES OF SENTENCES

Entidhar Al-Rashid
Master of English Literature
SENTENCE
A sentence is a group
of words that express a
complete thought.

Example: Tom is
going to play.
THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF SENTENCES

 Declarative
 Interrogative
 Imperative
 Exclamatory
DECLARATIVE SENTENCE

 A declarative sentence
makes a statement.
 It begins with a capital
letter and ends with a full
stop.
Example : The dog in
Neighbor's yard is
barking.
INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE

 An Interrogative sentence
asks a question.
 An Interrogative sentence
begins with a capital letter
and ends with a question
mark.
 Example:
 How was a movie ?
IMPERATIVE SENTENCE

 An Imperative sentence gives a


command or makes request.
 It starts with a capital letter and
ends with a full stop.
 Example of this sentence type:

Please “sit down”


Get me some water.
EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE

 An exclamatory sentence
expresses strong feeling,
emotion and excitement.
 It ends with an exclamation
mark.
 Example : Your house is on
fire!
How brave he was!
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES

• Tom reads a novel.


• Did you finish your home work?
• Amazing Day!
• Do not touch my books.
• What a nice day!
• How pretty she was!
• What did you say ?
SIMPLE SENTENCE

 Also called an
independent clause.
- contain a subject, verb
and expresses a complete
thought.
 Example :
Alicia goes to the library
every day.
COMPOUND SENTENCE

 Contains two independent


clauses
(simple sentences)joined by
coordinating conjunction.
 The Conjunction as follow:
for, and, , nor, but, or, yet, so.
(Fanboys).
Example :
The man knoked at the door and
he waited for an answer.
COMPLEX SENTENCE

 -hasindependent clause joined by


dependent clause(subordinate
clause)
 -dependent clauses do not
express a complete thought.
-depending clause begins with a
subordinating conjunction such as
because, after, since, although,
when,…etc.
COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE

A compound complex sentence


contains more than one
independent clause and at least
one dependent clause.
Example: Because I paid attention,
I got an A on the test and I was so
happy.
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES

• He went to college and I went to a market where I bought a


book.
• She is wearing a skirt which looks nice.
• I helped him and he became happy.
• She laughed at me.
• I like Mathematics but my bother likes Biology because he
wants to be a doctor.
WORK CITED

 G, Alexander L. Essay and letter Writing. 1965, 1967.

Fakhir, Razzak, and al-Hassan Helen. College composition. Bagdad, publication of


the Institute for the development of English Language Teaching in Iraq, 1976.

http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/sentencestructure

http://writingcenter.ua.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2012/02/sentencesstructureandpur
pose.pdf

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