THE FAB FOUR The 4 Types of Sentences

THE “FAB FOUR” The 4 Types of Sentences

Four Types of Sentences: 1. 2. 3. 4. Declarative Interrogative Imperative Exclamatory

1. Declarative Tells something Makes a statement Gives information Ends with a “. ” . “I went to a movie last night ”

2. Interrogative Asks a question Ends with a “? ” “What movie did you see ? ”

3. Imperative Gives an order Tells someone to do something Can end with a period OR an exclamation point . “Listen carefully to the directions ” ! “Clean your room ”

4. Exclamatory Shows strong feeling or emotion Said with excitement! Ends with a “!” ! “I just won a trip to the Bahamas ”

Show What You Know! On the next slide, label each sentence with its correct sentence type. (INT)=Interrogative (D)=Declarative (E)=Exclamatory (IMP)=Imperative

Label the following sentence with either (INT), (D), (E), or (IMP) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I am going to the store to buy fruit. I love watermelon! Is it hot outside? Do your homework. Doing your homework is important. Wash the dishes. Fall is my favorite time of year! I do not like winter. Halt! The play begins at 7: 00 p. m. on Friday night.

Question of the Day Why should we write using different types of sentences?

Varying Sentence Types

Varying Sentences… Good writers vary their sentences! � Length/Structure (simple, compound, and complex) � Type (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory) � Location of the subject in the sentence

Simple, Compound, and Complex Simple (Basic) Contains a subject, a verb, and a completed thought � Contains one idea � Compound � A sentence made up of two simple sentences and connected with a conjunction Ex: “Joe waited for the train. ” Ex: “Joe waited for the train, but the train was late. ” Complex � Has one main idea and at least one extra phrase or clause to give more information Ex: “Joe realized that the train was late while he waited at the train station. ”

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS PICTURE? WRITE A SHORT STORY ABOUT THE HAMSTERS IN THE PICTURE BELOW:

1. Was the activity difficult? 2. Why?

Underline the appropriate forms of the verbs in the parentheses to maintain consistent tenses in the following paragraph. My grandmother was not at all the way my friends describe their grandmothers. They still (speak, spoke) of Grandma as a grey-haired old woman who (is, was) always forgetting things she should remember and remembering things no one else is very interested in. My grandmother (is, was) not at all like that. She (is, was) always very lucid. No matter what we (do, did) as children, Grandma always (wants, wanted) to hear about it. I will never (forget, forgot) my first date. I didn't even want my brothers and sisters to know about Ray. But

Past and Present Tense The school cafeteria is usually crowded, but the other day things were worse than usual. A visiting band plays for the morning assembly and our band master invited the young men for lunch. Forty more people isn't much more when you are in a large auditorium but when you bring them to an already crowded cafeteria something had to give. It did! The moveable partition separating the faculty dining room from the student section came out laughing. For one day at least we had plenty of room and the faculty had the rare pleasure of student guests at lunch.