Types of Sentences
This sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
This part of the sentence names whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
A sentence with one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
Snow White spent her days with seven of them.
What are the dwarves?
The Washburn Mascot.
What is a beaver?
This type of sentence conveys strong feelings.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
In the sentence "Emily Dickinson wrote poetry." this is the subject.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Containing two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
In 1912 this giant ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank.
What is the Titanic?
This is the elementary school's street address.
What is 33 School street?
"Would you like to go to the store?" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The predicate of a sentence tells what the subject ____ or has.
What is 'does'?
Two or more sentences incorrectly written as a single sentence without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
These four ninja amphibians were named after Renaissance painters.
Who are the Ninja Turtles?
This is the name of the new principal.
Who is Principal Casey?
By definition, it is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
This type of predicate includes all the words in the predicate of a sentence.
What is a complete predicate?
"The women played on teams in the Midwest they earned a small amount of money per week." is this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
Before the discovery of Mt. Everest in 1856 this was the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt.Everest?
The school colors for MSAD 45.
What are blue and gold?
"Study for the test." Is this type of sentence.
What is an imperative sentence?
This does not express a complete thought. It may be missing a subject, a predicate, or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
And, but, or and ; are these.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
This city is famous for its tower and baguettes.
What is Paris?
Founded Feb. 25, 1861, it is the home of the Beavers.
What is Washburn?