Sentence Terminology

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Declarative

Makes a statement and ends with a full stop (caesura)

Examples

Julie taught her goldfish how to cook.

Tommy decorated his locker with pictures of cheesecake.

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Imperative

Issuing a command or make a request and ends with a full stop or exclamation point, depending on the intended force of the command or request

Examples

Turn left on Wiggleblorch Street.

Take off your shoes, please.

Bring me my slingshot!

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Interrogative

Asking a question and ends with a question mark

Examples

Can I get your number?

Where did the soda go?

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Exclamatory

Expresses strong emotion and ends with an exclamation point

Examples

We won the championship!

I can't believe it's not butter!

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Simple Sentence

Has one complete subject (noun or pronoun) and one complete predicate (main verb)

Example

Jeff went to band practice

The tired farmer hit the snooze button

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Compound Sentence

Contains two or more simple sentence that are joined with either a comma and a coordinating conjunction or with a semi colon. The simple sentences that join forces to create a compound sentence are called independent clauses

Examples

Maria had the day off work, so she watched an Orange is the new black marathon on Netflix

We should call a repairman to fix our washing machine; it keeps shredding all of our pants

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Complex Sentence

Consists of one independent clause (simple sentence) and at least one dependent clause. The independent clause can stand alone, but the dependent clause cannot.

A dependent clause begin with; After, as, although, while, when, where, until, before, because, if, since

Examples

I didn't prepare for my math test because my dog ate my calculator

The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error

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Parenthesis

The writer giving us extra information on top of a simple sentence to add to our understanding and expectation of what is to come, but the additional words do not change the grammar of the sentence

Example

'The main waited outside the bank' = simple sentence

'The man, who had done nothing to create suspicion, waited outside the bank' = parenthesis