Sentence Types

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Directions:: Identify each sentence as declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.

1.: It's cold out here!
declarative / interrogative / imperative / exclamatory
2.: I wish time travel machines really did exist.
declarative / interrogative / imperative / exclamatory
3.: Please pass your father the salt.
declarative / interrogative / imperative / exclamatory
4.: Can you read this writing?
declarative / interrogative / imperative / exclamatory

Directions:: Use the toolbar to identify the subjects and verbs in each sentence. Then identify each sentence as simple or compound. Commas have been left out on purpose.

5.: Liz babysits her brothers on Saturdays and watches her cousins on Wednesdays.
6.: simple / compound
7.: That mansion was built in the 1870s but has been abandoned since the 1960s.
8.: simple / compound
9.: I love chocolate ice cream but I prefer chocolate chip.
10.: simple / compound
11.: The first movie was just like the book but the second one combined two books.
12.: simple / compound

13.: While I count to 100, everyone needs to find a hiding place, and then I'll come looking for you.
complex / compound-complex
14.: Because I'm feeling sluggish, I'm going to walk on the treadmill for a while.
complex / compound-complex
15.: We decided to go to the early movie before you called.
complex / compound-complex
16.: Although the weather is stormy today, tomorrow should be bright and sunny, so we should be able to go biking along the old train tracks.
complex / compound-complex

Directions:: Use the toolbar to identify the independent clauses and the dependent clauses. Then decide if the sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.

17.: Scientists found an old medical recipe in a medieval manuscript, and when they tried it, they found that it worked better than modern remedies.
18.: simple / compound / complex / compound-complex
19.: The two trees on either side of my grandfather's driveway have been there for almost a hundred years.
20.: simple / compound / complex / compound-complex
21.: Jeremy's father wants him to become a mechanic and take over the family business, but Jeremy wants to be a professional musician.
22.: simple / compound / complex / compound-complex
23.: The four tiger cubs were hand raised by human keepers so that they would be easier to handle as adult tigers.
24.: simple / compound / complex / compound-complex

Directions:: Decide if each sentence is a sentence, a fragment, or a run-on.

25.: I will have to clean out the garage, then I will wash Dad's car and park it in the garage.
sentence / fragment / run-on
26.: Are you really going?
sentence / fragment / run-on
27.: Running quickly through the woods and jumping over downed logs.
sentence / fragment / run-on
28.: The wind picked up it got colder and colder.
sentence / fragment / run-on

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