Types of Sentences
How many types of sentences are there?
four
What is the purpose of the subject of a sentence?
It tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the type of sentence that asks a question?
interrogative sentence
What does the predicate do?
It tells what the subject is or is doing.
What type of sentence always gets an exclamation point?
exclamatory sentence
If a sentence only has a subject, it does not have a complete thought, so it is a _____________?
It is a fragment.
What four things that all sentences have?
1. A sentence starts with a capital letter.
2. A sentence ends with end punctuation.
3. A sentence must have a complete thought.
4. A sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
What two parts of speech can be simple subjects?
Only nouns and pronouns can be simple subjects.
What two types of sentences can have a period?
Declarative and some imperative sentences have a period at the end.
What part of speech are simple predicates?
Only verbs can be predicates.