English LANGUAGE (sentence Types)

Question 1

Declarative

Answer 1

Makes a statement or provides information
Example: I was speaking

Question 2

Interrogative

Answer 2

A question, with a question mark

Question 3

Exclamative

Answer 3

A sentence that is shouted or expresses extreme emotion, has an exclamation mark

Question 4

Imperative

Answer 4

Expresses a command
Example: stop shouting.

Question 5

Adverbial

Answer 5

Part of a sentence or clause that expresses time, manner or place
Example: The sun came out ‘at two o’clock’ (time)

Question 6

Fronted adverbial

Answer 6

Where the adveribal occurs at the beginning of a sentence
(Before the sun came up, he rose and left’

Question 7

Simple sentence

Answer 7

Contains a single clause

Question 8

Complex sentence

Answer 8

Contains a main clause and or or more subordinate clauses
Example: I grew up listening to taylor swift, although I disliked her later albums

Question 9

Compound sentence

Answer 9

Contains two or more main clauses joined by and, but, or, so etc
Example: I like cats and dogs.

Question 10

Subordinate clause

Answer 10

The secondary clause in a sentence, which does not make sense on its own

Question 11

Minor sentence

Answer 11

A short, ungrammatical sentence, often used in speech and found in literature for effect
Example: Wow! You really do like video games.

Question 12

Loose sentence

Answer 12

Begins with main clause and then adds on subclauses to provide extra information or to qualify the main clause.

Question 13

Periodic sentence

Answer 13

A mirror-image of the loose sentence in which the main clause comes at the end.

Question 14

Balanced sentence

Answer 14

Two or more equally weighted parts of the sentence to balance or contrast ideas.

Question 15

Syntactic parallelism

Answer 15

Sentences or clauses that are grammatically the same- but contain different words.