Sentences
A sentence is a group of words beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop (period), exclamation mark or question mark.
Sentence Types
We use statements to give information:
I read the book.
She lives in China.
A negative is a negative statement; it usually talks about something not happening:
I did not read the book.
They can't run very fast.
We use questions to ask for information:
Did you read the book?
Have you seen the news?
We use imperatives to give orders to people:
Shut up!
Get out!
We use exclamations when we are surprised or angry:
Help!
What a load of rubbish!
When someone asks us a simple yes or no question, we can give a short answer:
Yes, I do.
No, I don't.
See Also
Living Sentences - to practice sentence construction with younger students.
