{"id":21,"date":"2017-09-27T21:40:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-09-27T21:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:40:04","slug":"english-362-types-of-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/09\/27\/english-362-types-of-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"English 362: Types of Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the sentences you will be dealing with in English 362 are declarative sentences (and why the function on your diagrams for the whole sentence is simply &#8220;Declaration&#8221;). However, it is important to distinguish the other types of sentences too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Declarative Statements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear subject and predicate<\/li>\n<li>Make assertions about everyday affairs<\/li>\n<li>Do <strong>not<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Ask questions<\/li>\n<li>Give commands<\/li>\n<li>Express desires<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Example: It is windy today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imperatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has &#8220;understood subject,&#8221; so subject is not clearly visible\n<ul>\n<li>Example: Stop running!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The word &#8220;you&#8221; may be to show emphasis, more of an addressee than a subject\n<ul>\n<li>Example: You stop running!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Often will have an exclamation point<\/li>\n<li>Prohibitions:\n<ul>\n<li>Negative of imperative<\/li>\n<li>Example: Don&#8217;t burn that!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interrogatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asks a question<\/li>\n<li>Two types\n<ul>\n<li>Closed Interrogatives: a question that can be answered with yes or no\n<ul>\n<li>Has inversion, where the subject swaps place with a part of the predicate, often an auxiliary verb<\/li>\n<li>Example: Can you write that? vs. You can write that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open Interrogatives: a question that cannot be answered with yes or no\n<ul>\n<li>Centers around words like <em>who, what, where, when, why, and how<\/em> at the beginning of the sentence<\/li>\n<li>Example: Where are you going?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentence Fragments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is missing a part of sentence structure<\/li>\n<li>Is not an imperative or other type of sentence<\/li>\n<li>Example: About eight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exclamative and Precative Sentences<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exclamative\n<ul>\n<li>Dramatic expression of surprise or desire<\/li>\n<li>Example: What luck!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Precative\n<ul>\n<li>Similar to exclamative, but has ceremonial, proverbial, or ritual contexts<\/li>\n<li>Example: Lord help me!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hortatatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Begin with &#8220;Let&#8217;s&#8221; or &#8220;Let us&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Example: Let&#8217;s go!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the sentences you will be dealing with in English 362 are declarative sentences (and why the function on your diagrams for the whole sentence is simply &#8220;Declaration&#8221;). However, it is important to distinguish the other types of sentences too! Declarative Statements Clear subject and predicate Make assertions about everyday affairs Do not: Ask &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/09\/27\/english-362-types-of-sentences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English 362: Types of Sentences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561789],"tags":[562148,562472,554727,563571,564184,562752,562914,563791,563205],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-362","tag-ch-4","tag-declarative-sentences","tag-english-362","tag-exclamative-sentences","tag-hortatives","tag-imperatives","tag-interrogatives","tag-precative-sentences","tag-sentence-fragments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}