1. Lewis and Clark and Me
Unit 1 Grammar Week 2

2. Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences

3. Imperative Sentences
An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request.
Steer the boat.
It usually begins with a verb and ends with a period. The subject (you) is not shown.

4. Exclamatory Sentences
An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling or surprise.
The river is wide!
What a trip this is!
It ends with an exclamation mark.

5. Interjection
Interjections also show strong feeling and ends with an exclamation mark. An interjection is a word or group of words, not a complete sentence.
Amazing! Ouch!

6. Review An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request.
An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling or surprise. It ends with an exclamation mark.
An interjection also shows strong feeling or surprise, but it is not a complete sentence.

7. Decide whether the sentence is imperative or exclamatory.

8. Practice
Look at the top of that skyscraper.
That’s one amazingly tall building!
Please take my photograph there.
Wow! I’ve never been in a city this huge!
Don’t go too close to the edge.

9. Imperative or Declarative?
Buy your tickets here for the Statue of Liberty
What a long line this is
Please have your money ready
How wonderful the statue looks from the sea
Remember to bring your camera

10. Add words to the sentences
the tall Empire State Building (exclamatory)
a map of the city (imperative)
toys in this toy store (exclamatory)
the busy street (imperative)
to the show (imperative)

11. Test Prep
Choose the letter of the word or the word and punctuation mark that complete each sentence.

12. Notice the bright sunlight and palm trees in _________.
A Florida? C Florida!
B Florida D Florida
What a cold, gray place New York is in____________.
A comparison. C comparison!
B comparison D comparison?

13. Which sentence is written correctly?
A Cities are incredibly noisy
B Give me the country any day.
C Ugh! I couldn’t live there?
D How do you put up with it.
Don’t talk to me about the country.
I hate mosquitos?
Do you really want to live with cows!
I prefer an apartment building

14. Add a word to make the sentence complete.
__________ me the photos you took in Philadelphia. (imperative)
___________ an enormous bell that is! (exclamatory)
_________ lucky you were it didn’t rain! (exclamatory)
Please _________ me a copy of that picture. (imperative)