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Types of Sentences
Verbs
Miscellaneous
100
In 1951, a powerful hurricane and heavy winds were heading for Bermuda.
What is hurricane and winds?
100
By noon the storm had almost reached the coast and caused much damage.
What is had reached and caused?
100
Diamonds are the hardest natural stones on Earth.
What is a declarative sentence?
100
The Apatosaurus was a huge animal.
What is was?
100
They must contain a subject and a predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
200
Weather forecasters and the people of the island were waiting for the hurricane with fear.
Who are forecasters and people?
200
Then a weather forecaster stopped and noticed something very strange.
What is stopped and noticed?
200
Are they used to cut gemstones?
What is an interrogative sentence?
200
Because of its size, it ate a tremendous amount.
What is ate?
200
A verb
What must a predicate contain?
300
Scientists and weather observers seldom have witnessed anything like those two hurricanes.
Who are scientists and observers?
300
A second hurricane was also traveling and blowing toward the island.
What is was traveling and blowing?
300
Look at that white diamond!
What is an imperative or exclamatory sentence?
300
Because of the storm, we might not go to the concert.
What is might go?
300
Verbs that show being instead of action.
What are linking verbs?
400
There are many fans of his detective stories.
Who are fans?
400
Do you know the poems of Edgar Allan Poe?
What is do know?
400
Where can you find diamonds?
What is an interrogative sentence?
400
The first public railroad was not built until 1825.
What is was built?
400
Tells what action a subject is performing.
What is an action verb?
500
Listen to a reading of "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is (you)?
500
Didn't the Allans adopt him at the age of three?
What is did adopt?
500
How beautiful they are!
What is an exclamatory sentence?
500
By the end of the session, the professors had become believers in Jim's unusual ability.
What is had become?
500
Also known as auxiliary verbs, they work with a main verb to tell time of the action.
What are helping verbs?