Types of Sentences
What type of sentence is this?
Can you help me?
Interrogative
Choose the adverb:
The boy spoke (loud/loudly).
loudly
Fix the sentence:
Her and me went to the park.
She and I went to the park.
What does The exhausted runner collapsed after the race mean?
Very tired
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem
Fix and identify the sentence type:
do you want to go to recess
Do you want to go to recess? (Interrogative)
Rewrite using an adverb:
She sings.
She sings beautifully/quietly/loudly, etc.
Replace nouns with pronouns:
The children played with the children’s toys.
They played with their toys.
The word fragile is used in the sentence, What does it mean?
The vase is fragile, so be careful. What does it mean?
Easily broken
What is rhyme?
Words that end with the same sound.
Change this declarative sentence into an interrogative sentence:
You are coming to school.
Are you coming to school?
Choose the better sentence and explain why:
A. The boy ran fastly.
B. The boy ran quickly.
B is correct because “quickly” is the correct adverb form
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun.
Read this sentence and define the word:
The blizzard made it hard to see anything outside.
Blizzard means a strong snowstorm
What is one feature poems often have?
Line breaks, rhythm, rhyme, or stanzas
Identify the sentence type:
Please close your book quietly.
Imperative
Find the adverb and explain it:
The turtle slowly crossed the road.
Slowly; tells how the turtle crossed
Fix the sentence:
Me and him went to school.
He and I went to school.
The word gigantic is used in the sentence, What does it mean?
The elephant was gigantic.
Very big
Read this line:
The wind whispered through the trees.
What is being described in a special way?
The wind is being described as if it can whisper.
Explain how a reader knows a sentence is an exclamation without reading it aloud.
It ends with an exclamation mark and shows strong feeling.
What is an adverb?
A word that tells how, when, or where something happens.
Write a sentence using two pronouns.
Answers will vary (e.g., “She gave it to me.”)
Explain how context clues help you understand unfamiliar vocabulary.
They give hints so you can figure out meaning without a dictionary
What feeling does this line suggest:
The dark clouds rolled in and covered the sky.
Something scary, gloomy, or stormy is happening.