Sentences II

Sentences II

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This task is about identifying different types of sentences.

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Sentence type What it does
Declarative = Statement Makes a comment or states a fact.
Interrogative = Question Asks a question.
Imperative = Command Makes a request or gives a command.
Exclamatory = Exclamation Expresses an emotion strongly.
 
In the box below are examples of different sentence types.
Select the type of sentence it is by using the information provided in the chart above.
Examples Sentence type
i) I just hate him!

StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
ii) His birthday is on Friday.
 
StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
iii) Why are we doing this?

StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
iv) Stop now!

StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
v) That band is awesome!

StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
vi) Pass the salt, please.

StatementQuestionCommandExclamation
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Level:
4
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Description of task: 
This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
 

Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • demonstrate knowledge of how language works
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.

 

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
  

Y8 (09/2001)

i) Exclamation easy
ii) Statement very easy
iii) Question very easy
iv) Command easy
v) Exclamation easy
vi) Command very easy