CN-2366-TESOL-Foundation program: Teaching a Foreign Language
There are four types of sentences and those are declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative. 1. Declarative sentence A declarative sentence is to make a statement to relay information or ideas. They are punctuated with a simple period. Formal essays or reports are composed almost entirely of declarative sentences. Example: - The concert begins in two hours. - Green is my favorite color. 2. Imperative sentence An imperative sentence is to make commands or requests or it expresses a desire or a wish. It can be with a simple period or exclamation mark depends on the strength of emotion to express. Example: - Yield. - Respond immediately. 3. Exclamatory sentence It is to express strong emotion and it doesn't matter what the emotion is. This type of sentence always ended with an exclamatory mark, so it is quite easy to recognize it. Example: - The river is rising! - Please don't go! 4. Interrogative sentence This type of sentence is als