Types of Sentences

1. Take a look at the websites below and work on the exercises suggested.
https://www.englishgrammar.org/kinds-sentences-3/

- On the website below just work on the first group of worksheets

http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/languageartsworksheets/sentence-
structure/sentence-structure-worksheets/type-of-sentences-worksheets/

http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/types-of-sentences.html

2. Select a text from the web and identify 8 examples for each of the major types of
sentences.

3. Cut and paste sentences from the web illustrating 7 examples where we have
indirect speech acts and 7 examples of direct speech act.

4. Answer the questions below related to the documents uploaded.

a) Mention one syntactic characteristic for each of the major types of sentences
studied.
b) Explain from syntactic and semantic point of view the following sentences
- She bought a brand new CAR!
- What do I care?
- I’d love some cold WATER.
- Isn’t Peter CLEVER!
- Exclamatory questions
- Rhetorical questions

5. Cut and paste 5 sentences from the web and classify them considering 4 different
criteria.
Quirk and Greenbaum

a) Mention and exemplify the major classes of questions

b) Mention, explain and exemplify 3 types of tag questions
c) Mention and exemplify questions that do not have the subject operator
inversion.
d) The clause pattern of imperatives sentences show the same range and ordering
of elements as declaratives. Mention and exemplify.
e) How do imperatives differ from declaratives?
f) Compare and contrast exclamatives and interrogatives.
g) What are the discourse function of echo utterances? Explain and exemplify.
h) Considering the kinds of sentences, how would you classify block language?

i) Mention non sentences (usually noun phrases) that occur frequently in speech.
Mention 7.
j) Give different examples of formulae.

Downing
a) What does she mean by polar and non- polar interrogatives?
b) Explain and exemplify the double interrogatives.
c) What types of sentences can the questions tags be attached to?. Exemplify.
d) What’s the difference in the description of an exclamative done by Downing
and by Greenbaum?
e) Explain the difference between let (particle) and let (lexical)