Understanding Sentence Types

Elisabeth O'Brien from Grammar Revolution explains the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative. Declarative sentences make statements and end with periods. Interrogative sentences ask questions and end with question marks, often having a different word order. Exclamatory sentences express strong emotion and end with exclamation marks. Imperative sentences give commands or requests, with the subject 'you' understood. The video provides examples and highlights the unique features of each sentence type, offering resources for further learning.

What are the four types of sentences discussed in the video?

• Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex

• Active, passive, direct, and indirect

• Statements, questions, exclamations, and commands

• Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

What is another name for a declarative sentence?

• Interrogative sentence

• Exclamatory sentence

• Imperative sentence

• Statement

Which punctuation mark typically ends a declarative sentence?

• Comma

• Question mark

• Period

• Exclamation mark

What is unique about the word order in interrogative sentences?

• The subject is always at the beginning

• The subject is typically not at the beginning

• They always start with a verb

• They end with a period

Which punctuation mark ends an interrogative sentence?

• Period

• Semicolon

• Question mark

• Exclamation mark

What is another name for an exclamatory sentence?

• Exclamation

• Imperative sentence

• Interrogative sentence

• Declarative sentence

Which punctuation mark is used at the end of an exclamatory sentence?

• Period

• Question mark

• Exclamation mark

• Colon

What is the fancy name for a command sentence?

• Declarative sentence

• Exclamatory sentence

• Interrogative sentence

• Imperative sentence

What is the implied subject in imperative sentences?

• I

• We

• They

• You

Which types of sentences can end with either a period or an exclamation mark?

• Imperative sentences

• Interrogative sentences

• Declarative sentences

• Exclamatory sentences