Sentence Types
Identify the sentence as a declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence.
Wow, Sir Walter Raleigh is one of the most unusual characters in English History!
exclamatory
Identify the correct possessive form of the phrase:
the treasure of the pirates
the pirates' treasure
Determine the type of the all-caps pronoun (demonstrative, indefinite, personal, reflexive, intensive, interrogative):
Raleigh lost the queen's favor by marrying one of HER ladies-in-waiting.
personal
Identify the part of speech of the all-caps word (adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, verb)
Sir Francis Drake was one of England's greatest pirates AND explorers.
conjunction
Choose the correct form of the adjective or adverb as indicated in parentheses.
His ideas were (unusual, positive) for his time period.
unusual
Identify the sentence as a declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence.
How do you spell his last name?
interrogative
Identify the correct possessive form of the phrase:
the estate of Raleigh
Raleigh's estate
Determine the type of the all-caps pronoun (demonstrative, indefinite, personal, reflexive, intensive, interrogative):
WHO charged Raleigh with treason?
interrogative
Identify the part of speech of the all-caps word (adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, verb)
On his most famous voyage, Drake sailed AROUND the world.
preposition
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Bacon's theory was (logical, comparative) than the other theories.
more logical
Identify the sentence as a declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence.
Raleigh was born in Devonshire and attended Oxford University.
declarative
Identify the correct possessive form of the phrase:
the report of Charles
Charles's report
Determine the type of the all-caps pronoun (demonstrative, indefinite, personal, reflexive, intensive, interrogative):
THIS job led to Raleigh's execution sentence.
demonstrative
Identify the part of speech of the all-caps word (adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, verb)
He was the second person to sail around the world COMPLETELY.
adverb
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Bacon (dogmatically, positive) helped to develop the scientific method of solving problems.
dogmatically
Identify the sentence as a declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence.
In 1580 Raleigh became captain in the army of Ireland.
declarative
Identify the correct possessive form of the phrase:
the helms of the ships
the ships' helms
Determine the type of the all-caps pronoun (demonstrative, indefinite, personal, reflexive, intensive, interrogative):
Mrs. Conkel HERSELF is watching her students on the cameras at this very moment.
intensive
Identify the part of speech of the all-caps word (adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, verb)
Who led the first expedition around the world? WELL, it was Ferdinand Magellan.
interjection
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Bacon was one of the (early, superlative) propagators of this theory.
earliest
Identify the sentence as a declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence.
Tell me about Sir Walter Raleigh.
imperative
Identify the correct possessive form of the phrase:
the favorite of the queen
the queen's favorite
Determine the type of the all-caps pronoun (demonstrative, indefinite, personal, reflexive, intensive, interrogative):
Hoping to regain the queen's favor, Railegh HIMSELF led an expedition to South America.
intensive
Identify the part of speech of the all-caps word (adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, verb)
Philip GATHERED a Spanish fleet and named it the Invincible Armada.
verb
Choose the correct form of the adjective or adverb as indicated in parentheses.
Sir Francis Bacon was one of the (influential, superlative) supporters of empirical science.
most influential