1. The “Fab Four”
The 4 Types of Sentences

2. Four Types of Sentences:
Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamatory

3. 1. Declarative Tells something Makes a statement Gives information
Ends with a “.”
ORDINARY SENTENCE
Easy way to remember- You are “declaring” something in a declarative sentence
“I went to a movie last night.”

4. 2. Interrogative Asks a question Ends with a “?”
CURIOUS SENTENCE
“What movie did you see?”

5. “Listen carefully to the directions.”
3. Imperative
Gives an order
Tells someone to do something
Can end with a period OR an exclamation point
“Listen carefully to the directions.”
“Clean your room!”
BOSSY SENTENCE
If something is imperative it means that it is important and has to be done

6. 4. Exclamatory Shows strong feeling or emotion Said with excitement!
Ends with a “!”
“I just won a trip to the Bahamas!”
EXCITED SENTENCE
Exclamatory sounds a lot like “exclaim”. When you exclaim something, you are usually shouting it out/really excited, really mad, really sad etc.

7. Show What You Know!
On the next slide, label each sentence with its correct sentence type. (INT)=Interrogative (D)=Declarative (E)=Exclamatory (IMP)=Imperative

8. Label the following sentence with either (INT), (D), (E), or (IMP)
I am going to the store to buy fruit.
I love watermelon!
Is it hot outside?
Do your homework.
Doing your homework is important.
Wash the dishes.
Fall is my favorite time of year!
I do not like winter.
Halt!
The play begins at 7:00 p.m. on Friday night.

9. Question of the Day
Why should we write using different types of sentences?
It makes our writing more interesting for others to read!

10. Varying Sentence Types

11. Varying Sentences… Good writers vary their sentences!
Length/Structure (simple, compound, and complex)
Type (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory)
Location of the subject in the sentence

12. Simple, Compound, and Complex
Simple (Basic)
Contains a subject, a verb, and a completed thought
Contains one idea
Ex: “Joe waited for the train.”
Compound
A sentence made up of two simple sentences and connected with a conjunction
Ex: “Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.”
Complex
Has one main idea and at least one extra phrase or clause to give more information
Ex: “Joe realized that the train was late while he waited at the train station.”

13. What is going on in this picture
What is going on in this picture? Write a short story about the hamsters in the picture below:

14. 1. Was the activity difficult?
2. Why?

15. Underline the appropriate forms of the verbs in the parentheses to maintain consistent tenses in the following paragraph.
My grandmother was not at all the way my friends describe their grandmothers. They still (speak, spoke) of Grandma as a grey-haired old woman who (is, was) always forgetting things she should remember and remembering things no one else is very interested in. My grandmother (is, was) not at all like that. She (is, was) always very lucid. No matter what we (do, did) as children, Grandma always (wants, wanted) to hear about it. I will never (forget, forgot) my first date. I didn't even want my brothers and sisters to know about Ray. But Grandma! She (is, was) different. Even before I

16. Past and Present Tense
The school cafeteria is usually crowded, but the other day things were worse than usual. A visiting band plays for the morning assembly and our band master invited the young men for lunch. Forty more people isn't much more when you are in a large auditorium but when you bring them to an already crowded cafeteria something had to give. It did! The moveable partition separating the faculty dining room from the student section came out laughing. For one day at least we had plenty of room and the faculty had the rare pleasure of student guests at lunch.