Kinds of sentences
I love to play outside!
Exclamatory sentence (hint: it has an exclamation point)
Person, place, or thing (ie. school)
Noun
Used in place of a noun
Pronoun
Who or what the sentence is about
Subject
Me
1st person singular
What are you doing today?
Interrogative sentence (hint: it has a question mark)
Action word
Verb
Connects to clauses of a sentence (FANBOYS)
Conjunction
What the subject is doing
Predicate verb
You
2nd person
You need to go grocery shopping.
Imperative sentence (command)
Describes the verb
Adverb
Interruption or exclamation
Interjection
Makes the main verb more specific (there are 23!)
Helping verb
It
3rd person
I am going for a run.
Declarative sentence (statement)
Describes the noun
Adjective
Shows direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object (ie. before)
Preposition
Tells us about the verb
Adverb
They
3rd person plural
Our
1st person plural