Sentence Types

Question 1

What is a Declarative sentence?

Answer 1

Declarative sentences are short sentences that are statements

e.g. ‘The race will begin in two hours.’

Question 2

What is an Imperative sentence?

Answer 2

An Imperative sentence gives a command or is used to get one’s sudden attention

e.g. ‘Be quiet!’

Question 3

What is an Exclamatory sentence?

Answer 3

An exclamatory sentence is used to express strong emotion

e.g. ‘This is the best day of my life!’

Question 4

What is an Interrogative sentence?

Answer 4

Interrogative sentences are used when asking a question

e.g. ‘Is it snowing outside?’

Question 5

What is a simple sentence?

Answer 5

A sentence with one independent clause

e.g. ‘I went out shopping.’

Question 6

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 6

Contains two or more independent clauses

e.g. ‘I love shopping; yesterday, we all went to Liverpool.’

Question 7

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 7

A sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

e.g. ‘Because things are expensive, we all need to save up to go shopping.’

Question 8

What is a compound-complex sentence?

Answer 8

A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause

e.g. ‘Because we like shopping, people always expect us to have a lot of money, in reality I ran out of money last week.’