Sentence Types

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Sentence Types
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Sentence Types Based on Function

• Declarative makes a statement and ends in a
  period.
• Imperative makes a command or request and ends
  in a period. The subject of the imperative
  sentence is you understood.
• Interrogative asks a question and ends with a
  question mark.
• Exclamatory makes an exclamation and ends in
  an exclamation point.

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Sentence Types Based on Function

• Declarative Dougs paragraph was excellent.
• Imperative - Pass your papers forward.
• Interrogative Does everyone understand what to
  do?
• Exclamatory Sit down, please!

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Sentence Types based on Clauses

• The Simple Sentence
• has one subject/predicate pair. The subject
  and/or predicate could be compound.
• is one independent clause.

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The Simple Sentence

• Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest.
  (single subject and predicate pair)
• Peyton and Hannah might also climb Mt. Everest
  someday. (compound subject)
• Katie and Jonah read and write with great
  fluency. (Compound subject and predicate)

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Sentence Types based on Clauses

• The Compound Sentence
• has two independent clauses (AKA simple
  sentences).
• and clauses are joined by a coordinating
  conjunction, a pair of correlative conjunctions,
  a semicolon, or a colon.

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Conjunctions that Can Create Compound Sentences

• Coordinating and correlative conjunctions connect
  two equal parts.
• Coordinating and, but, or, nor, for, yet
• Correlative Not onlybut also Bothand
  eitheror neithernot whetheror.

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Compound Sentences

• The Arctic drew many explorers, and Peary was
  one of them.
• Peary returned to the United States, and he and
  others publicized the need for Arctic exploration.

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Compound Sentences

• Either my students will work, or they will not
  be able to choose their partners.
• Following class rules is beneficial students
  may receive rewards if they do.
• Please follow these directions put the
  heading in the top right corner of your paper.

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Points to Remember

• In grammatically correct classroom writing, a
  compound sentence should always have punctuation
  between the two independent clauses.
• Comma before the coordinating or mid-sentence
  correlative conjunction
• Semicolon or colon between the clauses
• Grammatical Faux Pas separating two
  independent clauses with a comma alone unless you
  are a skilled writer breaking the rules on
  purpose.

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Complex Sentences

• Complex Sentences
• have one independent clause
• and one subordinate clause

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• After the students followed the rules for
  several days, they received a reward.
• The students completed a double-entry journal
  while they were reading.
• The students who read most carefully received a
  good grade on the quiz.

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Compound-Complex Sentences

• A compound-complex sentence has two or more
  independent clauses and at least one subordinate
  clause.
• Yolanda began painting only two years ago, but
  already she has been asked to show one of her
  paintings at the exhibit that is scheduled for
  May.

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Compound-Complex Sentences

• When Bill left, he locked the door, but he
  forgot to turn off the lights.
• Inside the old trunk in the attic which is
  filled with boxes and toys we found some dusty
  photo albums, and one of them contained pictures
  from the early 1900s.

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Compound-Complex Sentence

• The smoke, which steadily grew thicker and
  darker, billowed through the dry forest the
  animals ran ahead of the fire as it spread
  quickly.

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Simple, Compound, Complex or Compound-Complex?

• I feel like studying dance when I watch Martha
  Grahams performances.
• The hairstylist gave Latrice a new look.
• Beth Heiden and Sheila Young won Olympic Medals.

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Simple, Compound, Complex or Compound-Complex?

• According to legend, Betsy Ross made our first
  flag, but little evidence supports this claim.
• All of the stars that we can see without a
  telescope are part of the Milky Way galaxy.
• I was glad that the school bus came early on the
  day of the science fair I needed extra time to
  set up my exhibit.

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Practice

• http//grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/qui
  z.pl/sentence_types_quiz.htm
• http//www.quia.com/rr/126726.html
• http//itech.pjc.edu/writinglab/senpat.htm