Four Kinds of Sentences

A. Write each sentence. After each sentence write declarative, interrogative, imperative, or
exclamatory.

1. The blue whale is the largest animal. ________________________

2. It is bigger than thirty elephants. ________________________

3. How much does it eat every day? ________________________

4. It eats from four to eight tons of food a day. _________________________

5. What a huge appetite it has! _________________________

6. Blue whales are so gigantic! _________________________

7. Does it really weigh 100 tons? _________________________

8. The Antarctic blue whale weighs up to 150 tons! _________________________

9. It spends six months a year feeding in Antarctic waters. ________________________

10. A blue whale is about twenty-five feet long at birth. __________________________

11. What a big baby that is! _________________________

12. How much does a baby blue whale weigh? _________________________

13. Please read the sign to find out. _________________________

14. It weighs about two tons at birth. _________________________

15. Note the size of that whale. _________________________

Directions rewrite the sentences with the correct end mark and capital letters.

16. whales consume hundreds of tons of plankton each year

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17. a young whale can gain as much as ninety pounds a day

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18. its favorite food is the tiny shrimplike krill

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19. can a blue whale stay underwater for a long time

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20. some have stayed underwater for almost an hour

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21.what huge breaths they must take

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22. tell me more about these amazing animals

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23. blue whales often dive to depths of several hundred feet

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