Sentences and four Kinds of sentence
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Sentences always have a subject and a verb.
Sentences are groups of words that express a complete thought. They typically contain a subject and a predicate. There are different types of sentences, such serving a specific purpose.
A sentence typically includes a subject (Who, or What the sentence is about) and predicate (What is said about the subject), which usually contain a verb.
Four Kinds of sentence
- Declarative sentence
- Interrogative sentence
- Exclamatory sentence
- Imperative sentence
It is raining.
Tom likes football.
The school bell was ringing.
The children are playing with the dog.
Topeka is in Mozambique.
An Interrogative sentence asks a question. An Interrogative sentence ends with a question Mark (?) instead of period.
Where are my keys?
Why is the sky blue?
Who is talking to the teacher?
Is this the way to the ice skating?
An exclamatory sentence makes a very strong statement called an exclamation. It shows a strong such as surprise or anger. An exclamatory sentence ends with an exclamation point (!) instead of period.
What a kind thing to do!
How beautiful she is!
The silly boy!
An imperative sentence gives an order. An imperative sentence can end with an exclamation point (!) if the order is very firm.
Ask Tom to come and see me.
Don't tell me lies.
Please leave.
Go to your room?!
Speak up!
Simple sentences
A clause is a group of words that contains one subject and one verb. A sentence that consists of one clause is called a simple sentence. Here are some examples.
- The girls are playing baseball. (Girls) subj. (are playing) verb.
- Sally found a good hiding place. (Sally) subj. (found) verb.
- I am eating my breakfast. (I) subj. (am eating) verb.
- Thomas is wearing his new shoes today. (Thomas) subj. (is wearing) verb
- Will you help me? (you) subj. (Will, help) verb.
- The sky was very cloudy. (sky) subj. (was) verb.
- I can here the birds. (I) subj. (can hear) verb.
- Every ones was happy. Is it raining again? (it) subj. (is, raining) verb.
Compound sentence
A compound sentence contains two clauses joined by a conjunction such as and, or, but or so. Look at thise are two verbs, one on each side of the conjunction.
Some people are always happy and some people are always sad.
She opened the bag and took out a book.
Do you want Coffee or would you prefer lemonade?
Is that a bird or is it a plane?
John is good at english but he's not very good at math.
Michael wants to see star war but his friend have already seen it.
Tom dropped his sandwich so I gave him mine.
It started to rain so we went inside.
Conditional sentence
To talk about things that are possible, you often use if in a sentence. A sentence with if is called a conditional sentence. Here is an example.
If it rain tomorrow, we shall not go to the beach. (if it rains tomorrow) simple present tense verb. (shall/will + infinitive.)
Posetive and negative sentences
A Posetive sentence tells you about something that exists or something that is happening.
I like ice cream.
Michael is my brother.
The train leaves at five o'clock.
I'm feeling really tired.
She's finished her homework.
Dad is in the kitchen.
There's a cartoon on TV.
A negative sentence contains the word not or another negative word. Negative sentence tell you that something does not existe or is not happening. Here examples.
I'm not very good at math.
Tom isn't as tall as Alan.
We didn't hear you shout at us.
Meera hasn't read the Thomas books
People can't see very well in the dark.
There's nothing interesting on TV.
We've never been to China or Japan.
Nobody knows my secret.
There are no coins in my pocket.
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