Kinds of Sentences
Oh, I hit my toe!
What is exclamatory?
Some members of the team will not play in the game because of injuries.
Subject: members
Verb: Will play
William Sydney Porter wrote many popular short stories.
What is stories?
Our medical knowledge is growing steadily.
What is a fragment?
What type of sentence comes at the beginning of a paragraph and introduces the main idea?
What is a topic sentence?
April, did you go to the Grand Canyon for vacation?
What is interrogative?
How did you ever find that place without a map?
Subject: you
Verb: ever find
O. Henry was his pen name.
Lights flashed up in the room everyone was blinded for a moment.
What is a run-on?
What type of order is used in a paragraph when events are given in the order theat they happened?
What is chronological?
Move the couch to the other side of the room.
What is imperative?
Over the fence and under the porch scampered the cat?
Subject: cat
Verb: scampered
I read two of his stories last week, but my sister read three this week.
What are two and three?
As he threw the hook into the water.
What is a fragment?
What type of sentence at the end of a paragraph emphasizes the main idea?
What is a summarizing sentence or a clincher sentence?
The hockey game was rescheduled for Monday night.
What is declarative?
Your assignment is written on the board.
Subject: assignment
Verb: written
His stories are famous for their surprise endings.
What is famous?
Six contestants will be in this first division.
What is a sentence?
What are the expressions that show the relationship between sentences?
What are transitions?
Who wrote on the wall?
What is interrogative
The boy walked to the door but ran down the hallway.
Subject: boy
Verb: walked, ran
My favorite story of O. Henry's is "The Gift of the Magi"
What is "The Gift of the Maji"?
There go the recruits when do they begin drilling?
What is a run-on?
What type of outline uses words or phrases for the main points?
What is a topical outline?