Types Of Sentences

Question 0

Cumulative

Answer 0

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.
- But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course — both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.

Question 1

Hortative

Answer 1

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.
- Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Question 2

Periodic

Answer 2

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.
- To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support . . .

Question 3

Inverted

Answer 3

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verbobject order).
- United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do . . .