Types of Sentences
From which country did the Pennsylvania Dutch emigrate?
Interrogative
Colonial women married around the age of 20.
Subject: women
Predicate: married
Rev. Cotton Mather, a godly Puritan pastor in Boston.
Fragment
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Rev. Cotton Mather, a godly Puritan pastor in Boston.
Saint Mary's gave religious freedom to Catholics and Proestants.
and; Catholics, Protestants
Learn the names of the colonies and their locations.
Imperative
English women outnumbered English men.
Predicate: outnumbered
Early inoculations attempts were risky, some were fatal.
Comma Splice
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Early inoculations attempts were risky, some were fatal.
Early inoculations attempts were risky. Some were fatal.
We can visit either Saint Mary's or Jamestown.
either; Saint Mary's, Jamestown
Wow, by the War of 1812, the population had increased to 2.5 million!
Exclamatory
The mother and the father are standing stiffly behind the children.
Subject: mother and father
Predicate: are standing
When Mather's son, Samuel, came down with the disease.
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When Mather's son, Samuel, came down with the disease.
Add a predicate
The colonist built their settlement by a calm but important river that led to Chesapeake Bay.
but; calm, important
Many German immigrants settled in the Pennsylvania area.
Declarative
They frown or stare.
Subject: they
Predicate: frown, stare
Samuel came down with the disease he was given the smallpox vaccination.
Fused Sentence
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Samuel came down with the disease he was given the smallpox vaccination.
Samuel came down with the disease. He was given the smallpox vaccination.
I would like to not only visit Saint Mary's City but also take a tour.
not only/but also; visit, take
After 1700, it would not have been unusual to hear the chatter of German, Dutch, and English on the streets of a British colony.
Declarative
Count the number of children in a colonial family portrait.
Subject: understood you
Predicate: count
He was one of the first supporters of innoculations for smallpox.
Sentence
He was one of the first supporters of innoculations for smallpox.
There is no correction to be made.
Lord Calvert, the leader of the colonists, bought land from the Yaocomaco Indians with farm equipment, fabric, and tools.
and; farm equipment, fabric, and tools