Types of Sentences
What type of sentence is this?
The barn is white.
A) Declarative C) Exclamatory
B) Interrogative D) Fragment
A) Declarative
Is the sentence correctly quoted?
Jim asked "How is Barry"?
A) Correct B) Incorrect
B) Incorrect
Determine whether the sentence is compound or complex.
A cat ran and a dog ran.
Compound
A cat ran, and a dog ran.
What part of speech is this word?
the
A) noun C) adverb
B) conjunction D) article
D) article
REMEMBER! Articles help us to know if a word is a noun without telling us directly.
What type of sentence is this?
Eating a piece of pie
A) Declarative C) Interrogative
B) Imperative D) Fragment
D) Fragment
Is the sentence correctly quoted?
Sue said, "Say hello to Tom."
A) Correct B) Incorrect
A) Correct
Determine whether the sentence is compound or complex.
As she read she ate
Complex
As she read, she ate.
Determine what part of speech the word is.
eat
A) adjective C) verb
B) common noun D) adverb
C) verb
REMEMBER! Verbs are action words or something we do.
What type of sentence is this?
When will he see us
No multiple choice... you tell me! Write the answer down.
Interrogative
Add quotation marks where they're needed.
When does class start? Jackson asked.
"When does class start?" Jackson asked.
Determine whether the sentence is compound or complex AND add the comma.
Bill ran and he jumped.
Compound
Bill ran, and he jumped.
Find the proper noun in the sentence.
When Nancy went to the park, her dog ran away.
Nancy
REMEMBER! A proper noun is a specific name for a person, place, or thing. It's usually capitalized.