Suguna International School

Name:____________________ English Worksheet- 2 Class: VI _____

Topic: Grammar-Types of sentences. Date:
• A group of words which makes sense and is meaningful is called a sentence.
• All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation
mark.(full stop, question mark, exclamation mark)
• Eg. I live in Coimbatore.
There are four kinds of sentences.
SENTENCES

Assertive / Imperative Interrogative Exclamatory

Declarative
A statement A command/request A question An exclamation
Ends with a full stop Ends with a full stop Ends with a Ends with an
question mark exclamation mark

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I. Identify the sentences as assertive, imperative, interrogative or !
exclamatory. Write the answer in the space provided.
1. You must work hard to succeed in life. ______________________ !!
2. What kept you busy for so long? ________________________
3. Wow, what a wonderful scenery! ________________________
4. Are you going to the market? ________________________
5. Stop playing and finish your work. _________________________
6. I live in a big house. ___________________________
7. My father is an engineer. ___________________________
8. Please open the door. ___________________________
II. Rearrange the jumbled words into meaningful sentences as per the
instructions given in the brackets, with appropriate punctuation marks :
1. do regularly exercise you ( interrogative)
2. T-shirt i yesterday bought this ( assertive)
3. excuses of your tired I am (assertive)
4. delicious a piece cake of what (exclamatory)
5. room please a book that bring from ( imperative)
6. we won match the hurrah (exclamatory)
Assertive sentences are of two types:
❖ Affirmative - I will go to school tomorrow.
❖ Negative - I will not play with you today.
Affirmative sentences can be changed to negative sentences and negative sentences
can be changed to affirmative sentences. For eg.
You must remember to visit him today. ( affirmative)
You must not forget to visit him today. ( negative)

No, not and never are used in a negative sentence

III. Do as directed:
1. This problem is difficult to solve. (Change into negative)
2. She never woke up early.(Change into affirmative)
3. How politely he behaves!(Change into an assertive sentence)
4. We cannot imagine a day without water. (Change into an interrogative sentence)
5. What a lovely voice she has! (Change into an assertive sentence)
IV. Choose the correct exclamatory sentence for the given assertive sentences:
1. I wish I could fly like a bird.
a. Oh, I wish I could fly like a bird!
b. Alas, if I could fly like a bird!
2. The rain is really lovely.
a. Alas, the rain is lovely!
b. How lovely the rain is!