The “Fab Four” The 4 Types of Sentences

Four Types of Sentences: Declarative Interrogative Imperative Exclamatory

1. Declarative Tells something Makes a statement Gives information Ends with a “.” ORDINARY SENTENCE Easy way to remember- You are “declaring” something in a declarative sentence “I went to a movie last night.”

2. Interrogative Asks a question Ends with a “?” CURIOUS SENTENCE “What movie did you see?”

“Listen carefully to the directions.” 3. Imperative Gives an order Tells someone to do something Can end with a period OR an exclamation point “Listen carefully to the directions.” “Clean your room!” BOSSY SENTENCE If something is imperative it means that it is important and has to be done

4. Exclamatory Shows strong feeling or emotion Said with excitement! Ends with a “!” “I just won a trip to the Bahamas!” EXCITED SENTENCE Exclamatory sounds a lot like “exclaim”. When you exclaim something, you are usually shouting it out/really excited, really mad, really sad etc.

Show What You Know! On the next slide, label each sentence with its correct sentence type. (INT)=Interrogative (D)=Declarative (E)=Exclamatory (IMP)=Imperative

Label the following sentence with either (INT), (D), (E), or (IMP) I am going to the store to buy fruit. I love watermelon! Is it hot outside? Do your homework. Doing your homework is important. Wash the dishes. Fall is my favorite time of year! I do not like winter. Halt! The play begins at 7:00 p.m. on Friday night.

Question of the Day Why should we write using different types of sentences? It makes our writing more interesting for others to read!

Underline the appropriate forms of the verbs in the parentheses to maintain consistent tenses in the following paragraph. My grandmother was not at all the way my friends describe their grandmothers. They still (speak, spoke) of Grandma as a grey-haired old woman who (is, was) always forgetting things she should remember and remembering things no one else is very interested in. My grandmother (is, was) not at all like that. She (is, was) always very lucid. No matter what we (do, did) as children, Grandma always (wants, wanted) to hear about it. I will never (forget, forgot) my first date. I didn't even want my brothers and sisters to know about Ray. But Grandma! She (is, was) different. Even before I

Past and Present Tense The school cafeteria is usually crowded, but the other day things were worse than usual. A visiting band plays for the morning assembly and our band master invited the young men for lunch. Forty more people isn't much more when you are in a large auditorium but when you bring them to an already crowded cafeteria something had to give. It did! The moveable partition separating the faculty dining room from the student section came out laughing. For one day at least we had plenty of room and the faculty had the rare pleasure of student guests at lunch.

Varying Sentence Types

Varying Sentences… Good writers vary their sentences! Length/Structure (simple, compound, and complex) Type (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory) Location of the subject in the sentence

Simple, Compound, and Complex Simple (Basic) Contains a subject, a verb, and a completed thought Contains one idea Ex: “Joe waited for the train.” Compound A sentence made up of two simple sentences and connected with a conjunction Ex: “Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.” Complex Has one main idea and at least one extra phrase or clause to give more information Ex: “Joe realized that the train was late while he waited at the train station.”

Practice… “Pass Around Stories” I will show you a picture. You will write one sentence about the picture. When I tell you to, you will get up and move to the laptop in front of you. You will then add one sentence to the person’s story in front of you. HOWEVER- The sentence CANNOT begin with the same word that the sentence before it began with! Finally, we will share out our stories.

Also… Make sure you are writing sentences that vary in LENGTH! If the sentence before yours is short and choppy, add on a complex or compound sentence to the story.

Example BAD-Sally went to the store. Sally bought stuff. Sally was happy. GOOD- Sally went to the store. She needed to buy bananas, yogurt, and granola so that she could have her friends over for breakfast. Unfortunately, when she got to Target, they were out of yogurt. Sally was sad.

What is going on in this picture What is going on in this picture? Write a short story about the hamsters in the picture below:

1. Was the activity difficult? 2. Why?