There are four types of sentences:

• Declarative
• Imperative
• Exclamatory
• Interrogative

Read the following sentences and identify their kind.

1. The children kept jumping into the flowerbeds.

2. Can you translate this in Spanish?

3. Cut the onion into small pieces.

4. Go and jump in the river.

5. We arrived in Rome at midday.

6. Do forgive me.

7. Be more careful.

8. What did you do then?

9. He went to school in Chennai.

10. Could you put the meat in the oven?

11. Get vaccinated as soon as you can.

12. How beautiful!

13. Take your hands off me.

14. Where have you been all this while?

15. Throw another log on the fire.

Answers

1. The children kept jumping into the flowerbeds. (Declarative)

2. Can you translate this in Spanish? (Interrogative)

3. Cut the onion into small pieces. (Imperative)

4. Go and jump in the river. (Imperative)

5. We arrived in Rome at midday. (Declarative)

6. Do forgive me. (Imperative)

7. Be more careful. (Imperative)

8. What did you do then? (Interrogative)

9. He went to school in Chennai. (Declarative)

10. Could you put the meat in the oven? (Interrogative)

11. Get vaccinated as soon as you can. (Imperative)

12. How beautiful! (Exclamatory)

13. Take your hands off me. (Imperative)

14. Where have you been all this while? (Interrogative)

15. Throw another log on the fire. (Imperative)