💬 Types of Sentences

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📘 Définition

Sentences can have different purposes depending on what we want to express. They can provide information, ask a question, give an order, or express a feeling.

✏ Exemple

I am going to school. (declarative) • Where do you live? (interrogative) • Close the door! (imperative) • What a beautiful landscape! (exclamatory)

🧠 À retenir

Declarative • Interrogative • Imperative • Exclamatory

✅ Points clés

  • • A declarative sentence provides information.
  • • An interrogative sentence asks a question.
  • • An imperative sentence gives an order, advice, or instruction.
  • • An exclamatory sentence expresses a strong emotion.
  • • A sentence can sometimes be both imperative and exclamatory.

❌ Erreurs fréquentes

  • • Confusing interrogative and exclamatory sentences.
  • • Forgetting punctuation marks (?, !).
  • • Thinking that every exclamatory sentence must contain an emotional word.

💡 Astuce

Look at the punctuation mark at the end of the sentence. It often reveals the sentence type.