Most second graders learn about three types of sentences—the declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory. Children do not have a lot of trouble with the three types of sentences—it is relatively easy to discover the difference between a statement (or declarative sentence) and a question (or interrogative sentence), etc.
Again, the problem most writers (of all ages) have is not determining what the ending punctuation should be for a sentence or determining if a sentence should begin with a capital letter or not. The real difficulty lies in determining whether a group of words is a sentence or not a sentence. We will examine that more closely as the month progresses.
For today, we will introduce the three types of sentence first learned in grade school.
1. A declarative sentence is a statement.
a. It declares (tell or state) something.
b. It ends with a period.
c. It is sometimes called a telling sentence.
2. An interrogative sentence is a question.
a. It asks a question. (To interrogate someone is to ask him a
lot of questions.)
b. It ends with a question mark.
c. It is sometimes called an asking sentence or a question.
3. An exclamatory sentence is an excited sentence.a. It asks a question. (To interrogate someone is to ask him a
lot of questions.)
b. It ends with a question mark.
c. It is sometimes called an asking sentence or a question.
a. It is used to show strong emotion or excitement.
b. It ends with an exclamation point (or excited mark!).
c. It is sometimes called on excited sentence.
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